The Actress (1913)
From his boyhood, John Hayes had always had the idea that he would one day marry Enid Wilson. When he reached an age of supposed discretion, he became engaged to her as a matter of course. Then, all of a sudden, he met Marian Orme. Marian was a great actress. From the very moment he met her, John Hayes began to love her, not because she was famous, or beautiful, but solely because he could see the finer qualities that lay behind her mask of genius. Enid, who had long adored Marian Orme from afar, one day wrote her a note begging for an interview. Marian readily consented to her admirer's request, and invited her to come to her dressing room. The wondering Enid came in delighted awe, and found John Hayes' picture. In the tempest of sobbing grief which followed, Marian learned that her little admirer was also her rival. John Hayes, knowing that he had found the only love which could ever count, broke off his engagement with Enid, and asked Marian to marry him. But the actress, pitying the girl's evident distress, refused him. When she found that John was not to be put off with a simple "no," Marian resolved to kill his love for her. Accordingly, on one occasion she pretended to be intoxicated, and on another, allowed John to overhear a desperate love scene between herself and another man, not advising him that the other man was an actor and that they were only rehearsing. At last, when she found that John's love was growing stronger despite her subterfuges, Marian, in desperation, wrote him a letter in which she told him plainly that she was not worthy of him. John, heartbroken, went west. A few months later. Marian was disfigured for life in an automobile accident. John, hearing the dreadful news, hurried east, and proved to the despairing woman the true worth of his love.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Ashley Miller | Director |
| Ashley Miller | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Mabel Trunnelle | |
| Barry O'Moore | |
| Bessie Learn | |
| Richard Neill |
