The Splendid Sin

The Splendid Sin (1919)

Drama

Although they have a happy marriage, Sir Charles Chatham, an explorer, and his American wife, Lady Marion, have been unable to have children. After Charles goes to Egypt, his sister Gertrude and her sweetheart Stephen Hartley, an American consulate attaché, take refuge from a storm in a deserted tower. Frightened, Gertrude yields to Stephen's advances. Although he intends to marry Gertrude, Stephen suddenly is called to deliver supplies to starving women and children in Russia. Marion takes the pregnant Gertrude away to have her child, and notifies Stephen, who, because he is shot during Bolshevik rioting, returns too late to marry Gertrude, who dies after childbirth. To honor Gertrude's dying request, and to provide Charles with a much desired child, Marion telegraphs Charles that the baby is theirs.

Director: Howard M. Mitchell

Casts

	Madlaine Traverse as Lady Marion Chatham
	Charles Clary as Sir Charles Chatham
	Jean Calhoun as Gertrude
	Wheeler Oakman as Stephen Hartley
	Elinor Hancock as The Dowager Lady St. Aubrey
	George Hackathorne as The Honorable George Granville
	Edwin B. Tilton as Doctor Kent
	Francis Carpenter as Child
	Virginia Lee Corbin as Child
	Ruth Royce as

Crew