The Secret Sorrow
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George Edward Brown
Percy Verwayen
Edna Morton
Lawrence Chenault
Inez Clough
Ida Anderson
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Anne Morgan, a poverty-stricken black woman, decides to give up one of her two sons and finds a prominent black doctor willing to adopt him. The doctor treats the child, whom he names Arthur, as his own son and sends him to law school, after which he becomes the assistant district attorney of New York. Meanwhile, the other brother, Joe, a boxer and gangster, has joined the city's criminal underworld and works for crooked politician Sam Dungan. When a murder takes place in one of the dives that Dungan owns, Joe is charged with the crime, and Arthur is assigned to the case as the prosecuting attorney. During the trial, Arthur calls Anne to the stand, not realizing that she is his own mother, and accuses her of moral degeneracy as he tries to paint an evil portrait of Joe. Dungan's daughter Grace, who is Arthur's sweetheart, discovers the truth about the brothers, and after finding the real murderer, sees that the mother and the two boys are reunited. She then joins the happy family as Arthur's bride.
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This film was also known as Secret Sorrow. An ad in the George P. Johnson Collection at the UCLA Special Collections Library referred to J. C. Brown as a "celebrated race author." According to modern sources, the cast also included J. H. Woodson and Henry Pleasant.
