Little Sunbeam (1914)
Melody and Blossom, two orphans, aged about sixteen, live in a little shack by a stream. Melody plays a little violin, and Blossom sells flowers. Their only friend is the village minister, who loves them. As they go along the road on their way to the city, playing and selling flowers, they encounter different people, whom they make happy with their music and flowers. In the city Melody plays before a lovely house. Inside a woman sits restless and sad. Ray Wilton, a society man, enters her room. She seems bored, and he questions her. As she hears the strains of Melody's violin, she sees a vision of herself at her mother's knee, and the old father comes behind the mother's chair. The vision fades away, and the girl denounces Ray, telling him she is through with this life. Later, Ray Wilton and some club men at the club propose a fishing trip. They go to the country, and here Blossom again meets Ray. As she is crossing the stream, she slips, spraining her ankle. He carries her to the little shack. Blossom is unconscious, and Melody will not let Ray take care of her. She instinctively distrusts him. Later, Ray meets Blossom and gives her her first kiss. Innocently she tells Melody about the wonderful kiss, and shows her the beads. Melody is filled with misgivings, and warns Blossom not to have anything to do with him. Blossom tells her she loves him, and they have their first quarrel. That night Blossom leaves with Ray. Sometime later Melody sets out to search for Blossom; Blossom is seen in her new home daintily dressed in city clothes. She asks Ray when they will be married, and he laughingly changes the subject. On the streets Melody plays. Grief adds a peculiar charm to her playing. One day she faints in the street and a well-dressed old man takes her in his taxi. She is brought to the home of Jack Bennard, a young artist. Later she is adopted and, after hard study, sent to Italy, where the artist's brother takes care of her. Blossom is seen one day sewing on a white garment. Ray enters the room, and asks to see it. Blossom, in sweet shame, confesses all Ray becomes bitter, and tells her it cannot be. They quarrel, and she goes. Blossom comes home to the old village minister. Brokenly she confesses all to him at the gate. He takes her in his arms like a tired child and leads her into him home. Melody, in Italy, has completed her studies and, after a farewell party given by the students, she returns home with Jack. They become engaged on board the steamer. At home again, Melody still mourns for Blossom and one day in the garden tells Jack what grieves her. Alone, Jack resolves to visit the old shack where they once lived. He sets up the canvas to paint the picture, and starts. Blossom is sitting in the grassy field with a wreath on her head, singing. She starts as Jack comes toward her, and as he kneels and parts the tall thick grass. Jack sees a tiny baby asleep. He is touched at the sight, and proposes sketching them. She agrees. In the city, Melody gives her first concert. In the box near the stage are Jack and his parents and Ray Wilton enters. As the music starts and Melody raises her violin, at the sound Ray sees himself and Blossom walking among the flowers, happy, he stoops to kiss her. Ray, overcome with emotion, staggers from the box. Jack follows him, and takes him to the studio. Here Ray gets to feel better. He sees a large canvas covered with white, and asks to see it, to change the subject. The painting makes him confess all. Jack tells him he must go to her. Ray leaves soon. Melody comes in carrying armfuls of flowers and roses from the stage. In the country. Ray and Blossom are married among the flowers, Blossom holding her baby.
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GenresDrama
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