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The Call of Her Child
(1915) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Robert Nolan [Henry Blake], Augusta Anderson [Mrs. Henry Blake], Herbert Barrington [the artist], Kate Bruce [the friend’s mother]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 25 February 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Content with life as she knows it the woman lives happily with her husband and their little son in a humble cottage. Then, on the invitation of a school friend she goes to the city and soon learns that there is another life, much more fascinating, apparently, than that to which she is accustomed. An artist is her constant cavalier, and by degrees the gay life takes hold on her. She writes her husband that she will not return. He is crushed by the blow, but must give evasive answers to the boy’s impatient cry: “Why doesn’t mamma come home?” A young artist sees the little fellow and paints his picture. It is exhibited, and the mother, seeing it, is drawn irresistibly back to her child. When she returns to the cottage her husband roughly orders her away, but his heart is touched by her penitence and by the child’s joy. and finally he forgives her, and they are happy once more.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 13 March 1915, page ?] A woman, enamored by a fashionable artist, is recalled to a sense of duty by a portrait of her child. Obviously, there is nothing startlingly fresh about such a story, yet it may be placed above the average one-reel drama. A tasteful production and the intelligent acting of Robert Nolan and Augusta Anderson may be thanked for this.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 20 November 2022.
References: Spehr-American p. 1 : Website-IMDb.
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