Destiny: or, the Soul of a Woman
The greatest heart gripping feature ever produced by Famous Metro Films. A drama that tells a wonderful story for old and young.
Artist Standish using his wife Mary as his model finishes a painting of the Madonna. When the Connoisseur and the Parishioner inspect the picture, the Connoisseur tells Standish that the model was a one-time paramour. Buying the painting they depart. Standish confronts Mary, who tells him that she believed herself legally married to the Connoisseur. Unbelieving he ejects her and their baby son. Penniless Mary leaves her boy on the steps of a monastery. Years later before becoming a monk the boy is sent to see the world. Wandering into a café he is seduced by Beauty as the other inmates of the place, Lust, Rum, Avarice and Passion dance around him. The proprietor enters; it is Mary. Recognizing the crucifix, she left with him as a baby she persuades him to go back without revealing her identity. After he becomes a priest Mary, now a bedraggled old woman enters his church. She recognizes him and just before she dies her son gives her absolution.
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Top Cast
Emily Stevens
Mary Gadman
George Le Guere
The Boy
Theodore Babcock
Standish
Fred Stone
Parishioner
Howard Truesdale
Father Anthony
Henri Bergman
Avarice
Vivien Oakland
Beauty
Ralph Austin
The Neighbor
Walter Hitchcock
The Connoisseur
Effingham Pinto
Lust
Del DeLois
Rum
Florence Short
Passion
Edwin Martin
Father Time
Baby Field
Baby
Joyce Beverley
Cynthia Foo
Jessica Hilbrect
Carson Stiggers
Little Boy
Jan Webb
Crew
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Cinematographers
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