Broken Hearts
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A young woman, adopted by a wealthy family, is distressed when an octoroon maid claims that the young woman is her daughter. Running away with a band of gypsies, the young woman falls in love with the son of a wealthy family while fending off the advances of a gypsy man. After she encounters the husband of the maid, she returns home and obtains her adoption papers, which lead her to the discovery that her parents were both white. The young woman and the boy she loves are married.
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When purchased by Tyrad in 1919 or early 1920, this film was called Scar of Shame or The Scar of Shame; articles announcing the title change appeared in trade journals in mid-1920. A Tyrad film called Broken Hearts, however, is on the Motion Picture News release charts from the beginning of 1920. Early 1920 Motion Picture News charts list Gareth Hughes as its star, while later ones credit Lucille De Tar and Florence Hackett. Records of the Community Motion Picture Bureau make reference to a film entitled Scar of Shame with the same plot as the Tyrad picture, produced by the Helen Gardner Film Co., controlled in October 1919 by one Mr. Spitz, and viewed by the Community Motion Picture Bureau at the time. Given the other films presented by Mr. Spitz to the Community Motion Picture Board at the same time, it seems likely that Scar of Shame was made much earlier, possibly during the existence of the Helen Gardner Picture Players in 1912-14. The Bureau's plot synopsis gives Hester Powers as the name of the film's principal character.
