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"Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son."

Cast

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Elliott Dexter

as David Markely

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Gloria Swanson

as Ruth Anderson

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Monte Blue

as Jim Dirk

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Theodore Roberts

as Luke Anderson

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Claire McDowell

as Housekeeper

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Michael D. Moore

as Bobby Markely (as Mickey Moore)

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Julia Faye

as Alice Blair, Banker's Daughter

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James Pier Mason

as Country Masher

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Togo Yamamoto

as Servant

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Theodore Kosloff

as Clown

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William Boyd

as (uncredited)

Crew

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Cecil B. DeMille

Director

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Jeanie Macpherson

Story

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Cecil B. DeMille

Producer

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Jesse L. Lasky

Producer

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Karl Struss

Director of Photography

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Alvin Wyckoff

Director of Photography

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Anne Bauchens

Editor

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Natacha Rambova

Costume Design

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Clare West

Costume Design