Leonie (1913)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Short
Release: 1913-01-17
Director: Charles Brabin
Writers: Bannister Merwin
Language: None | English
Stars: Augustus Phillips , Mary Fuller , Miriam Nesbitt , Margery Bonney Erskine , Mrs. William Bechtel , Harry Beaumont (1888–1966) , George Lessey , Walter Edwin
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Leonie (United States of America) , Leonie
Plot: Jack Landon, a gifted young artist, is loved by Leonie, a model, but he is blind to her attractiveness and her affection for him. Word comes that Mrs. Glenn, a rich woman, is going to call to see about Landon painting a portrait of Muriel, her daughter. The prospect of such an order creates wild excitement in Landon's studio. His various friends in the building come to his rescue with loans of hangings, rugs and bric-a-brac to make the studio presentable. They arrive shortly after and Landon secures the order. He also falls in love with Muriel, who is not only beautiful, but also a well-trained flirt. She permits Landon to think he is making progress with her heart as well as with her portrait. Landon invites Mrs. Glenn and Muriel to come to the artists' ball, an annual costume affair. He pawns his watch for money to send violets to Muriel, for though the portrait is complete, the payment for it has not been made. Just before the portrait is sent to the Glenns. Leonie, coming to Landon's studio, sees it for the first time. She realizes that it is the face of her rival and in a flame of rage, she is about to slash the canvas when Landon enters and prevents her. She then would turn the knife against herself, but again he prevents her. Then she sinks sobbing into a chair. At the ball, however, she is the gayest of the gay. She dances a Spanish dance ending before Landon. Mrs. Glenn and Muriel. Muriel is so delighted that she thoughtlessly tosses the violets which Landon has given her to Leonie. While the ball is in progress Landon leads Muriel to a secluded place to test his fate. Leonie is already in the little room and has barely time to hide behind the window curtains before the other two enter. Then Muriel spurns Landon and leaves him crushed and dazed. Overwhelmed by the shattering of his house of cards, he leaves the dance and goes home. All the fierceness of Leonie's nature is now directed against Muriel, who has so hurt Landon. Leonie confronts Muriel in the ball room, tells her tensely what she thinks of her and hurls the violets at her. Then she goes swiftly to Landon's studio, where he sits, miserably depressed, and the light in her eyes is such that he knows at last what true love means and his dream of Muriel vanishes in the glow of the love he has felt for Leonie without knowing it.
IMDB:tt0003060