A Price for Folly
Cast & Crew
George D. Baker
Edith Storey
Antonio Moreno
Louise Beaudet
Charles Kent
Harry T. Morey
Film Details
Synopsis
Jean de Segni, a reckless-spending Duke's son, becomes infatuated with ballet dancer Dorothea Jardeau, as does Jean's middle-aged companion, Henri Landon. After Dorothea invites them to a party, Jean's ill father, who is disgraced by newspaper accounts that Jean has lost his fortune gambling and philandering, argues with Jean to reform. After drinking at his club, Jean returns to sleep. At Dorothea's party, she rebukes him for being broke and takes up with Landon. Jean returns home to find that his father stabbed his mother, who idolized Jean, so that she would not be hurt because of Jean, and that the Duke himself is dying from shock. After the Duke confesses and dies, Jean's friends scorn him. When Landon implies that the Duke took the blame for Jean's murders, Jean fights a duel with him, but purposely loses because of the guilt he feels for his parents' deaths. As Jean dies, Dorothea walks away with Landon. Jean then awakens from his dream, and when Dorothea calls about the party, he agrees to come, but then refuses and embraces his parents.
Director
George D. Baker
Cast
Edith Storey
Antonio Moreno
Louise Beaudet
Charles Kent
Harry T. Morey
Ethel Corcoran
T. Waln-mogan Draper
Helen Pillsbury
John Hines
Arthur Cozine
Hughie Mack
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Notes
George P. Dillenback originally sold this story to the Vitagraph Co. as a one-part drama. Edith Storey designed her ballet costume for the film. According to some reviews, the character played by Harry T. Morey is called "M. Henri Langdon," and the character played by Ethel Corcoran is "Mlle. Blanche Mournier." The film opened at the Vitagraph Theatre in New York on May 23, 1915.
