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  • A Mother's Sacrifice (1912)
  • Short | Short, Comedy, Drama
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A Mother's Sacrifice (1912)
Short | Short, Comedy, Drama
Elizabeth Morton is called upon by Herbert Harman, the executor of her late husband's will, saying it states that Betty, her daughter, is to be educated at the Sacred Heart Convent, in France. After Betty has been a year abroad, moved more...See moreElizabeth Morton is called upon by Herbert Harman, the executor of her late husband's will, saying it states that Betty, her daughter, is to be educated at the Sacred Heart Convent, in France. After Betty has been a year abroad, moved more by passion for the widow's loneliness than love, Harman proposes to Mrs. Morton. She requests him to wait a year until Betty returns from school, and if their feelings are then the same, she will consent to marry him. In the meantime, Betty has blossomed into a beautiful bud of womanhood and the three years prescribed by her father's will having passed, she returns to her home and mother. Her mother has prepared a surprise for her in the shape of her first long dress. Betty goes into girlish raptures over its beauty. While the girl is admiring her own reflection in the hall mirror, her mother allows Harman to place the engagement ring upon her finger, and tells him that for the first time since her husband's death, she will put on a light dress, and discard her mourning. Betty bursts upon Harman and tries to captivate this tall, rather mature man. As the days go on, Harman realizes that on the very day he engaged himself to the mother, he lost his heart to the daughter. The girl is never told of the engagement, and the moment of decision comes to the mother, when her daughter kneels beside her, telling that she not only admires Harman, but feels that she has grown to love him. The mother knows well Harman's fineness of character, and that he will fulfill to the letter his engagement promise. The mother frees Harman from the engagement and places her daughter's hand in his, and leaves them building their "air castles" together. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Jan 28, 1912
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Jan 28, 1912 (United States)

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Mabel Trunnelle
Betty Morton Betty Morton   See fewer
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Herbert Prior
Herbert Harman Herbert Harman   See fewer
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