Name: In the Heart of a Fool
Released: 1920
Cast: James Kirkwood, Anna Q. Nilsson, Mary Thurman, Philo Mccullough, Ward Crane

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Oct 1920

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Mayflower Photoplay Corp.; An Allan Dwan Production

Distribution Company

Associated First National Pictures, Inc.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White (New York, 1918).

Synopsis

Laura Nesbit, the daughter of old Dr. Nesbit and the belle of the younger social set in the town of Harvey, is planning to marry Grant Adams, the editor of the local paper, until Laura, to arouse her beau's jealousy, flirts with Tom VanDorn, a rising but unscrupulous lawyer. Grant, heartbroken, allows himself to be drawn into an affair with Margaret Muller, the town siren, with whom he has an illegitimate son. On the rebound, Laura marries VanDorn and Margaret weds attorney Henry Fenn. History repeats itself when Laura's husband becomes infatuated with Margaret, thus causing both marriages to break apart. Meanwhile, Grant has given up his newspaper to become a foreman in the mines. After he is injured in an explosion, Grant is taken to the Nesbit home and nursed back to health by Laura. When, during a strike at the mines, Grant's little son is shot and killed, he becomes so overwrought with grief that he confesses the child's parentage to Laura, who forgives his past, thus allowing them to begin a new life together.