Martha's Vindication
Cast & Crew
C. M. Franklin
Norma Talmadge
Seena Owen
Ralph Lewis
Tully Marshall
Charles West
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Synopsis
Following the death of her fiancé and the birth of her baby, Dorothea, to avoid even the hint of a scandal, gives the child to her best friend Martha, who has arranged to have the infant raised by her old nurse. Soon, having kept her child a secret, Dorothea marries Deacon Hunt, while Martha becomes engaged to John. Then, however, the unscrupulous Sell Hawkins remembers having seen Martha bring the baby to the nurse, and accuses her, before the church congregation, of being an unwed mother. Dorothea remains silent, and Martha, hoping to protect her friend, refuses to tell the truth about the child. Just as Martha's guilt seems assured, however, the child is brought to the church with an injury, and when a concerned Dorothea rushes to the infant, her actions and expression betray her own secret.
Cast
Norma Talmadge
Seena Owen
Ralph Lewis
Tully Marshall
Charles West
William Hinckley
Francis Carpenter
George Stone
Alice Knowland
Alberta Lee
Edwin Harley
George Pearce
Porter Strong
Josephine Crowell
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