Silent film adultery so scandalous it needed TWO endings for different markets.
A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover that he's married. As if that weren't bad enough, he is soon seriously injured in an automobile accident, and doctors say that he may never walk again.
Acting
Norma Shearer's face does ALL the talking.
Production
Dual endings shot for prudish vs. worldly audiences.
Director
Reginald Barker
Norma Shearer
Grace Durland
James Kirkwood
Ward Trenton
Adolphe Menjou
Tommy Kemp
Mae Busch
Irene Kirby
George Fawcett
Mr. Durland
Margaret McWade
Mrs. Durland
Robert Agnew
Bobbie Durland
Ruth Stonehouse
Ethel Durland
Robert Frazer
John Moore
Winifred Bryson
Mrs. Ward Trenton
Vera Reynolds
Sadie Denton
Edythe Chapman
Beulah Reynolds
George Kuwa
Chang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Norma Shearer's breakthrough — Irving Thalberg saw it and basically cast her in everything. Without this soapy mess, no 1930s Shearer dominance.
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