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
Louis Wolheim
Executioner (uncredited)
Frank Puglia
Pierre
Monte Blue
Danton
Dorothy Gish
Louise Girard
Morgan Wallace
Marquis de Praille
Sheldon Lewis
Jacques Frochard
Creighton Hale
Picard
Joseph Schildkraut
Chevalier de Vaudrey
Marcia Harris
Henriette's Landlady (uncredited)
Lucille La Verne
Mother Frochard
Kate Bruce
Sister Geneviève (uncredited)
Lee Kohlmar
King Louis XVI (uncredited)
Flora Finch
A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Adolph Lestina
The Doctor (uncredited)
Katherine Emmet
Countess de Linieres
Leslie King
Jacques-Forget-Not
Frank Losee
Count de Linieres
Sidney Herbert
Robespierre
Herbert Sutch

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