Name: Always in the Way
Released: 1915
Cast: Mary Miles Minter, Ethelmary Oakland, Lowell Sherman, Edna M. Holland, Mabel B. Green

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Jun 21, 1915

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Dyreda Art Film Corp.

Distribution Company

Metro Pictures Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Inspired by the song "Always in the Way" by Charles K. Harris (1903).

Synopsis

Dorothy, the four-year-old daughter of wealthy lawyer Winfred North, longs for her deceased mother. Too busy to attend his child's needs, Winfred marries Helen Stillwell, a widow with two children, but Helen, while lavishing attention on her own children, treats Dorothy as if she is always in the way. Dorothy runs away, and when missionaries Reverend and Mrs. Goodwin find her, Helen denies knowing Dorothy so that her own children will inherit Winfred's wealth. After Dorothy accompanies her new parents to Africa, Helen tells Winfred that Dorothy has been lost. His efforts to recover his missing daughter prove fruitless, and Dorothy grows up in Africa teaching Christianity to the natives. When she is fifteen-years-old, her stepparents are slain by Zulus. Dorothy is separated from her sweetheart, prospector John Armstrong, and with a servant's help, she boards a steamer to America. John pursues Dorothy to New York and discovers her true parentage. He then finds her working in a flower shop and reunites her with her father, who denounces Helen.