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

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