Dawn
Cast & Crew
J. Stuart Blackton
Robert Gordon
Sylvia Breamer
Harry Davenport
James Furey
Fanny Rice
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
As a latent result of falling out of a tree when he was a child, artist Keith Burton gradually starts to go blind. Having earlier heard his sweetheart, lovely heiress Dorothy Parkman, remark that she finds blind people disgusting, Keith becomes depressed and refuses her attentions. When an operation by Dorothy's stepfather, an eye surgeon, fails, Dorothy, under an assumed name, nurses Keith and teaches him to read and write until he discovers the ruse and, accusing her of pitying him, demands that she leave. On the verge of suicide, Keith is saved by his housekeeper and later finds value in helping neighbor John McGuire, blinded while fighting in France. Keith soon suffers from hearing gossip linking Dorothy and his own father, but when he finds that they had been meeting to plan the construction of a training school for blind soldiers of which he will be the superintendent, he and Dorothy marry.
Director
J. Stuart Blackton
Cast
Robert Gordon
Sylvia Breamer
Harry Davenport
James Furey
Fanny Rice
Flora Finch
Gladys Valerie
Margaret Barry
Eddie Dunn
Gus Alexander
George Bunny
George Pauncefort
Robert Milasch
Film Details
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Notes
Most of the film was shot at the J. Stuart Blackton studios in Brooklyn, NY, but some exterior scenes were shot at the estate of the late artist Philip Boileau at Douglaston, Long Island.
