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The Heart of Jennifer
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Wikipedia article
'The Heart of Jennifer' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by James Kirkwood, Sr. and written by Edith Barnard Delano. The film stars Hazel Dawn, James Kirkwood, Sr., Irene Howley, Russell Bassett, and Harry C. Browne. The film was released on August 30, 1915, by Paramount Pictures.
Plot
A man gives aid to another man on the condition that he can marry the man's daughter. The daughter refuses and goes to a lumber camp with her father. At the lumber camp she marries a man named James Murry. The first man finds her and convinces her husband that she only married him for the money. This causes problems in their relationship. The man ends up getting her sister pregnant too and when he refuses to marry her, the sister kills him. To protect her sister the woman claims to have done it. The lumber camp man realizes his wife was only sacrificing herself for her sister, and that effort helps to reunite the couple.
Cast
*Hazel Dawn as Jennifer Hale
*James Kirkwood, Sr. as James Murray
*Irene Howley as Agnes Murray
*Russell Bassett as Mr. Hale, Jennifer's Father
*Harry C. Browne as Stephen Weldon
Preservation
No prints of the film have survived. It is now lost.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5954/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'The Heart of Jennifer']
References
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