Name: The Secret Orchard
Genre: Adaptation
Released: 1915
Cast: Cleo Ridgley, Blanche Sweet, Edward Mackey, Gertrude Kellar, Carlyle Blackwell

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Genre

Adaptation

Release Date

Aug 9, 1915

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co.

Distribution Company

Paramount Pictures Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the play The Secret Orchard by Channing Pollock (New York, 16 Dec 1907).

Synopsis

Diane, a child of four, interrupts the frightening party noises in an adjoining room. Because a guest remarks to her mother Cora May, a reigning Parisian demimonde, that the child "has the devil in her eyes, Cora, just like you," Cora puts Diane in a convent. At nineteen, Diane visits a friend by the seashore and meets the Duke of Cluny, who, confused by Diane's innocence and devilish eyes, courts her. Diane, ignorant of her inherited "hidden weakness," succumbs when he deceitfully promises marriage. Meanwhile, the Duchess of Cluny, in her charity work, meets Cora, dying in a hospital, and promises to care for Diane. When Diane recognizes the duke, both keep quiet to protect the duchess. Later, Diane falls in love with the duchess' brother Lieutenant Dodd, an American navy officer. When Diane overhears the duke tell Dodd, whose proposal she refused, to marry her, she reveals her secret. Dodd mortally wounds the duke in a duel, the duchess forgives the duke and Diane tells Dodd that perhaps some day they will marry.