Drama History Romance
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
Directed by
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish
Henriette Girard
Frank Puglia
Pierre
Lucille La Verne
Mother Frochard
Dorothy Gish
Louise Girard
Morgan Wallace
Marquis de Praille
Kate Bruce
Sister Geneviève (uncredited)
Monte Blue
Danton
Frank Losee
Count de Linieres
Sidney Herbert
Robespierre
Frank O'Connor
Party Guest (uncredited)
Adolph Lestina
The Doctor (uncredited)
Creighton Hale
Picard
Joseph Schildkraut
Chevalier de Vaudrey
Louis Wolheim
Executioner (uncredited)
Flora Finch
A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Leslie King
Jacques-Forget-Not
Frances Robinson
Henriette as a Child (uncredited)
Lee Kohlmar
King Louis XVI (uncredited)
Kenny Delmar
The Chevalier - as a Boy
Katherine Emmet
Countess de Linieres
Sheldon Lewis
Jacques Frochard
Marcia Harris
Henriette's Landlady (uncredited)
Herbert Sutch
Meat Carver at Festival
Fay Marbe
Dancer (uncredited)
Jill Rainsford
Rita Rogan
Louise as a child (uncredited)

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