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
Monte Blue
Danton
Sheldon Lewis
Jacques Frochard
Dorothy Gish
Louise Girard
Kate Bruce
Sister Geneviève (uncredited)
Frank Losee
Count de Linieres
Creighton Hale
Picard
Joseph Schildkraut
Chevalier de Vaudrey
Frank O'Connor
Party Guest (uncredited)
Frances Robinson
Henriette as a Child (uncredited)
Kenny Delmar
The Chevalier - as a Boy
Flora Finch
A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Morgan Wallace
Marquis de Praille
Lee Kohlmar
King Louis XVI (uncredited)
Marcia Harris
Henriette's Landlady (uncredited)
Adolph Lestina
The Doctor (uncredited)
Leslie King
Jacques-Forget-Not
Katherine Emmet
Countess de Linieres
Sidney Herbert
Robespierre
Louis Wolheim
Executioner (uncredited)
Herbert Sutch
Meat Carver at Festival
Fay Marbe
Dancer (uncredited)
Jill Rainsford
Rita Rogan
Louise as a child (uncredited)

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