The Family Secret

Overview

The daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father violently disapproves of. The father, in an excess of parental concern, separates the lovers by sending his daughter away so that she might forget her lover, unaware of their married state. During this time, she gives birth to a daughter. After some months, the young mother returns to her family manor and presents her father with his new granddaughter, which causes a most unfortunate scene. Unbeknownst to the young woman, her enraged father falsely accuses his son-in-law of theft and has him incarcerated in order to separate the lovers in an irrational attempt to force his daughter to forget this "unworthy" young man.

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Cast

Baby Peggy

Peggy Holmes

Gladys Hulette

Margaret Selfridge

Frank Currier

Simon Selfridge

Lucy Beaumont

Miss Abigail Selfridge

Edward Earle

Garry Holmes

Elizabeth Mackey

Aunt Mandy

Martha Mattox

Nurse Sneed

Cesare Gravina

Tomaso Silvano

Martin Turner

Uncle Mose