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  • Mother's Choice (1914)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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Mother's Choice (1914)
Short | Short, Drama

Anna Lehnberg. the wife of an anarchist, lives in daily terror of the police. Her husband, an expert chemist, has invented several explosives to be used against the enemies of the cause, and the woman fears that her baby son will be ...See moreAnna Lehnberg. the wife of an anarchist, lives in daily terror of the police. Her husband, an expert chemist, has invented several explosives to be used against the enemies of the cause, and the woman fears that her baby son will be trained to follow his father's dangerous life. A woman in the same tenement dies, and Anna substitutes her own child for the infant of the dead woman. She realizes that the bereaved husband, a man of high character, not knowing that the child is not his own. will give it the best of care. Later, when the anarchist is experimenting with his explosives, he is killed and she is left alone with the baby, who has taken her own child's place. Years pass, and George, her foster son, now grown to manhood, has won her heart, but she often thinks of her own child. Reading in the newspaper that her real son, now wealthy, is visiting the city on his yacht, she determines to see him. Posing as a flower seller, she goes to the yacht and after seeing her son to whom she does not disclose her identity, she sets out for shore. The boat is upset and she is rescued from drowning by her own son, and by George the lad whose place he has taken. Realizing the wrong she has done him, she confesses to George the secret of his birth, but learns he is perfectly happy with her, and as she has grown to care more for him than for her own child, she leaves the young millionaire in blissful ignorance of the fact that the "flower woman" whom he rescued was his own mother. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Carey L. Hastings (scenario)
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Updated Sep 1, 1914

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Sep 1, 1914 (United States)

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10 cast members
Name Known for
Carey L. Hastings
Anna Lehnberg Anna Lehnberg   See fewer
Arthur Bauer
Lehnberg - Anna's Husband Lehnberg - Anna's Husband   See fewer
Charles Emerson
The Lehnberg Son The Lehnberg Son   See fewer
Nolan Gane
George - Anna's Foster Son George - Anna's Foster Son   See fewer
Ernest C. Warde
George's Father George's Father   See fewer
Peggy Burke
The Son's Fiancée The Son's Fiancée   See fewer
Virginia Waite
Actress Actress   See fewer
Ethel Jewett
Tenement Sick Woman Tenement Sick Woman   See fewer
May Dunn
Sick Woman's Nurse (as May Dunne) Sick Woman's Nurse (as May Dunne)   See fewer
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