Name: Sweet Lavender
Released: 1920
Cast: Mary Miles Minter, Sylvia Ashton, J. M. Dumont, Starke Patteson, Milton Sills

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Oct 1920

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Realart Pictures Corp.

Distribution Company

Realart Pictures Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the play Sweet Lavender by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (London, 21 Mar 1888).

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

5 reels

Synopsis

Ruth Holt, the proprietess of a boardinghouse in a small college town, lives with her pretty niece "Sweet Lavender," who believes that Ruth is her mother. When boarder Clem Hale, president of the freshman class, is the victim of a prank played by several of his classmates, Lavender rescues him and the two fall in love. Clem's guardian, Horace Weatherburn, becomes concerned about his ward's infatuation with a "commoner" and arrives to break up their romance. Ruth, who recognizes Washburn as Lavender's real father and the man who brought her sister grief, strongly opposes the match and sends Lavender off to boarding school. Upon learning that Clem is seriously ill, Lavender runs away to comfort her sweetheart and, in her plight, faints by the side of the road. Weatherburn finds her and is so touched by her concern, that he relents his previous condemnation. Ruth then reveals Lavender's parentage to her father who offers his blessing to the couple.