Sweet Alyssum
Cast & Crew
Colin Campbell
[frederick] Tyrone Power
Kathlyn Williams
Edith Johnson
Wheeler Oakman
Frank Clark
Film Details
Synopsis
Wanting the finery that her husband Roanoke's money cannot buy, Daisy Brooks enters into an affair with Robert Garlan, a more prosperous, powerful man. When Roanoke discovers Daisy's adultery, he shames her into suicide, and the lover, his employer, leaps to his death in a similar fashion. Roanoke takes his daughter Sweet Alyssum to live in the country, while Garlan's son Wynne grows up in the city. Years pass and Wynne marries, but his bank clerk salary cannot satisfy his wife's needs. Like Daisy before her, Wynne's wife becomes involved with another man, Thurlow, a cashier who steals from the bank register. Implicated in the crime, Wynne flees and ends up working on Roanoke's land as an oil prospector. He falls in love with the now-mature Daisy and, upon receiving news of his divorce, elopes with her. A child is born, but Thurlow shows up and accuses Wynne of bigamy and theft. After much confusion and anger on Roanoke's part, the truth is revealed and the family prospers, free of sin.
Director
Colin Campbell
Cast
[frederick] Tyrone Power
Kathlyn Williams
Edith Johnson
Wheeler Oakman
Frank Clark
Harry Lonsdale
Gene Frazer
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Notes
The film was shot at the Selig Mission Zoo in Los Angeles.
