The Girl Who Stayed at Home
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
D. W. Griffith
Adolphe Lestina
Carol Dempster
Frances Parks
Richard Barthelmess
Syn De Conde
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Synopsis
Ralph Grey visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not reconciled with the Union. Blossom, however, is engaged to a French nobleman known as Monsieur Le France. When the war breaks out, Ralph enlists, while his brother Jim, a heartbreaker known as Oily, is drafted. After trying to get out of serving, Jim gets a promise of faithfulness from his sweetheart, cabaret dancer Cutie Beautiful, and goes to a training camp where he matures. Ralph and Jim, in the same regiment, serve admirably, with Ralph receiving honors for his heroism in the Lost Battalion. When Blossom's chateau is attacked, her fiancé dies, and after she saves a German officer, he kills another German about to attack her and then dies himself. Blossom's grandfather welcomes the Americans by flying the stars and stripes, and since Cutie remained faithful despite many temptations, the two couples marry.
Director
D. W. Griffith
Cast
Adolphe Lestina
Carol Dempster
Frances Parks
Richard Barthelmess
Syn De Conde
Robert Harron
George Fawcett
Kate Bruce
Edward Peil
Clarine Seymour
Tully Marshall
David Butler
Film Details
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Notes
This was the first time that Richard Barthelmess or Clarine Seymour appeared in a Griffith film. This was Carol Dempster's first major role. The film included footage shot at the war front and also in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. Provost Marshal General E. H. Crowder, General Peyton Conway March and Secretary of War Newton Baker appear in the film.
