Name: The Silent Woman
Released: 1918
Cast: Edith Storey, Frank Mills, Joseph Kilgour, Lilie Leslie, Mathilde Brundage

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

Shadow and Substance

Release Date

Sep 2, 1918

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Metro Pictures Corp.

Distribution Company

Metro Pictures Corp.; All-Star Series

Country

United States

Synopsis

When John Lowery, his wife Mary and their small son Billy journey to a Northern lumber camp to visit its owner, Clifford Beresford, Mary becomes infatuated with the lumberman and neglects her little boy. A Hudson Bay Company clerk named Nan McDonald, known as the "angel of the lumberjacks," forms such a strong attachment to the child that although he becomes seriously ill, Billy refuses to take his medicine unless Nan dispenses it. Watching over him late one night, Nan sees Mary steal from her room to keep a midnight appointment with Clifford, but when Mary falls down the stairs to her death, Nan maintains her silence for John's sake. Heartbroken, John asks Nan to return with him to the East as Billy's governess, but local gossips misinterpret her presence in John's house and he marries her. Informed that John still loves only his dead wife, the unhappy Nan allows Clifford to flirt with her, whereupon John learns the truth about Mary and opens his heart to the woman who really loves him.