The Spreading Dawn
Cast & Crew
Lawrence Trimble
Jane Cowl
Orme Caldara
Harry Springer
Florence Billings
Harry Stephenson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Georgina asks permission from her old aunt, Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl, to marry Capt. Nugent before his departure for France. Patricia refuses and, in reply to Georgina's questioning, gives her a diary from her own girlhood to read. The diary unfolds the story of Patricia's marriage to soldier Anthony Vanderpyl. Returning on furlough after the outbreak of the Civil War, Anthony suddenly leaves Patricia to visit Mrs. Le Roy, an old flame, and is killed by her jealous husband. Positive that Anthony had been unfaithful to her, Patricia refuses to open the letter that her husband sent to her on the day of his death. Georgina now opens it and discovers that Anthony had gone to Mrs. Le Roy to end the affair that his brother Bentley was having with her. With this revelation, Patricia sanctions her niece's marriage and then dies, going to join Anthony in "the spreading dawn."
Director
Lawrence Trimble
Cast
Jane Cowl
Orme Caldara
Harry Springer
Florence Billings
Harry Stephenson
Alice Chapin
Helen Blair
Cecil Owen
Mabel Ballin
Edmund Lowe
Edith Mcalpin
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
This was Jane Cowl's first film for Goldwyn Pictures. Some scenes were shot at the military mobilization camp at Plattsburg, NY.
