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A Mother's Confession
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Wikipedia article
'A Mother's Confession' is a 1915 silent film written and directed by Ivan Abramson, and starring Christine Mayo and Austin Webb.(21 August 1915). [https://books.google.com/books?id=eUs_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1333&dq=%22A+mother%27s+confession%22&hl=en&ei=YjGYTsWOCMjG0QHAiNHUBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22A%20mother%27s%20confession%22&f=false A Mother's Confession], 'The Moving Picture World'
Plot and background
Typical of Ivan Abramson's exploitation dramas, this film chooses to explore the ills of illegal marriage. Henry Patterson, played by Otto Kruger, is married to Lola (Christine Mayo) and living in Chicago with their young son Harold. But Henry also marries rich heiress Louise Douglas in Denver (where he finds his mining interests to be worthless) to save his family from poverty. Both wives are kept in the dark about this bigamy. When Henry returns years later and confesses to Lola, he is accidentally killed by Lola's friend (and love interest) Fred Warren. Lola marries Fred after he is found not guilty of murder. Later, Lola's son falls in love with his half-sister Muriel Warren, and Lola rushes to stop the marriageconfessing her sins to the priest. Muriel becomes a nun, and Lola goes to live with Harold.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=1&Movie=13813 A Mother's Confession], American Film Institute, Retrieved November 3, 2011(9 September 1917). [http://www.fultonhistory.com/Process%20small/Newspapers/Ogdensburg%20NY%20News/Ogdensburg%20Ny%20News%201918.pdf/Newspaper%20Ogdensburg%20Ny%20News%201918%20-%200313.pdf A Mother's Confession], 'Odgenburg News'(4 September 1915). [https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor25newy#page/n1711/mode/1up A Mother's Confession (review)], 'The Moving Picture World'(25 September 1915) [https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor25newy#page/2252/mode/1up Ivan Film Productions, Inc. (long plot summary)], 'The Moving Picture World'
The film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors in 1916.Green, Jonathon & Nicholas J. Karolides. [https://books.google.com/books?id=bunHURgi7FcC&pg=PA77&dq=%22A+mother%27s+confession%22&hl=en&ei=tjGYTtGbE8bv0gGF-8WcBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=%22A%20mother%27s%20confession%22&f=false The encyclopedia of censorship], p. 76-77 (2005)
Chadwick Pictures re-released a re-edited version of the film in 1920 as 'A Wife's Story'.
Cast
*Christine Mayo as Lola Patterson
*Austin Webb as Fred Warren
*Otto Kruger as Henry Patterson
*Margaret Adair as Muriel Warren
*Carrie Reynolds(27 October 1916). [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1916-10-27/ed-1/seq-11/ Photoplays on the Program Next Week], 'Washington Times' (confirms that Carrie Reynolds is the same as the former Broadway performer)
*Sidney L. Mason
*Ned Nye
References
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