Lights and Shadows (1914)

电影

国家/地区: 美国
类型: 剧情, 短片
上映日期: 1914-11-29
导演: Joseph De Grasse
编剧: N/A
语言: None | English
演员: Tom Forman , Pauline Bush , Pauline Bush , Lon Chaney , Laura Oakley , Betty Schade , Joseph De Grasse , Beatrice Van , Helen Wright , William C. Dowlan
片长: 分钟
奖项: N/A
又名: Lights and Shadows (美国) , Lights and Shadows
剧情简介: Eve makes a poor living selling flowers. She pleads with her old nurse, Matilde, with whom she lives, to allow her to enter cafés saying she would have no trouble to dispose of her flowers there. Matilde realizes the time has come to tell Eve of her mother's fate. Her mother, a singer, had married the only son of a wealthy man. This son was disinherited for connecting the family with a stage performer. Time went by and the pair drifted from bad to worse; Bentley after using up all his wife's money and jewels, deserted her on the night Eve was born. Matilde was maid to the mother and when she died it fell to her lot to care for Eve. When the old nurse finishes the story she dozes off, still dreaming of the past. Eve, desperate by lack of food and her nurse's weak condition, decides to disobey. Taking her flowers, she steals out to seek the bright lights. A crowd of young revelers, among them Victor Austin, are attracted to the pretty flower girl as they enter the café. They buy all her stock. Austin leaves his friends and steals back to Eve as she stands dazed by her good luck He makes advances to her and she frees herself, running to shelter in the tenements. She finally steals back into her own lodging only to find the old nurse dead. Eve is grief-stricken, but soon recovers. In on old trunk she finds some letters which give her an inkling as to where her father's relations can be found. She starts out to locate them and to demand her rights. At a junction where she has stopped to change cars, she is robbed of her train ticket and what little money she has. A theatrical company offers her sympathy and protection until they reach Utica, the town for which she was bound. She is offered a small part to play and she makes good. The star of this company, James Gordon, although married, cannot resist the charm of Eve. On reaching Utica and learning that her father has inherited the Bentley fortune, but is away on a hunting trip, Eve pleads to remain with the company. Gordon gladly consents. Shortly after comes the news that Gordon has been offered a position in New York, the mecca of all his ambitions. The company must disband. Eve seeks her dressing room to hide her tears. There Gordon finds her and is unable to withhold expressions of love back. Eve is happy until she learns from another member of the company that Gordon is married. She remembers her nurse's warning about the perfidy of men; she determines to seek out her father and never see Gordon again. She departs. Meantime Gordon receives a telegram to the effect that his wife, who had left him, is dead. In vain he seeks Eve to tell her. Eve has found her father. His friend, Austin, falls in love with Eve. The father is in favor of the match in that he owes Austin big sums of money. James Gordon's New York debut is attended with great success. Yet he still longs for Eve. He reads of her approaching marriage with bitterness. Eve learns Gordon's wife had been dead for some time, through a newspaper article, and realizes at last his intentions were honorable. She goes to the theater to see him in the new play. The sight of the man she loves overpowers all social ambitions; she casts aside her jewels and her wealth and seeks him out as a woman who understands life's real meaning.
IMDB:tt0004227