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

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