Madame Peacock
Cast & Crew
Ray C. Smallwood
Nazimova
George Probert
John Steppling
William Orlamond
Rex Cherryman
Film Details
Synopsis
Jane Goring, a ruthlessly ambitious actress, forsakes her life as a wife and mother for the stage. Returning home from a performance one night, Jane is disgusted to find her husband Robert McNaughton victimized by a tubercular cough and so banishes him and her young daughter to a sanitarium in Colorado. Years pass, finding Jane still estranged from her family. On the opening night of her new play, Jane finds herself upstaged and outperformed by Gloria Cromwell, a rising young actress, who, unknown to Jane, is her abandoned daughter. Returning home, Jane is haunted by visions of her husband and child and begins to sob. Looking up from her pillow, she is startled to see her husband with Gloria. Discovering that the girl is actually her daughter, Jane realizes the error of her ways, and the family is reconciled.
Director
Ray C. Smallwood
Cast
Nazimova
George Probert
John Steppling
William Orlamond
Rex Cherryman
Albert Cody
Gertrude Claire
Georgie Woodthorpe
Film Details
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Moving Picture World stated that Nazimova selected the cast, designed costumes, suggested set details, wrote the titles and supervised the cutting and assembling of this picture. Nazimova made her first public appearance since her retirement from the stage at the preview of this film in September 1920 in Hollywood. The box office receipts from the preview were given to the family of the late Eugene Gaudio, the cameraman for several Nazimova productions.
