The Family Secret

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1924 / 70min.

Rating5.9

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Crime

Synopsis

The daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father violently disapproves of. The father, in an excess of parental concern, separates the lovers by sending his daughter away so that she might forget her lover, unaware of their married state. During this time, she gives birth to a daughter. After some months, the young mother returns to her family manor and presents her father with his new granddaughter, which causes a most unfortunate scene. Unbeknownst to the young woman, her enraged father falsely accuses his son-in-law of theft and has him incarcerated in order to separate the lovers in an irrational attempt to force his daughter to forget this "unworthy" young man.

Directors

Actors

Edward Earle

Frank Currier

Gladys Hulette

Martha Mattox

Lucy Beaumont

Cesare Gravina

Baby Peggy

Martin Turner

Elizabeth Mackey

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