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

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