Name: Love's Crucible
Released: 1916
Cast: Frances Nelson, June Elvidge, Douglas Maclean, Lumsden Hare, John Hyland

Brief Synopsis

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Feb 14, 1916

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

William A. Brady Picture Plays, Inc.

Distribution Company

World Film Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the play The Point of View by Jules Eckert Goodman (New York, 25 Oct 1912).

Synopsis

Myra Dymsley has developed a talent for painting and decides to leave her home town, as well as her sweetheart, Stephen Wright, and move to New York to study art in earnest. Then, when her father cannot raise the funds to send her there, Stephen gives him the money, on the condition that Myra remain unaware of the source of the donation. Once established in New York, Myra's paintings attract the attention of connoisseurs, while Myra herself attracts the attention of wealthy dilettante Robert Lawton. Myra soon falls in love with him, but Robert eventually grows tired of her, and casually ends their affair. Then, when Robert's sister learns of his jilting Myra, she forces him to go back to her and propose marriage. Myra rejects him, however, and when Stephen comes to New York to propose, she turns him down too, and insists that, for now, her top priority is her painting.