The Family Secret (1924)
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.
Director: William A. Seiter
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Baby Peggy as Peggy Holmes |
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Gladys Hulette as Margaret Selfridge |
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Frank Currier as Simon Selfridge |
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Lucy Beaumont as Miss Abigail Selfridge |
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Edward Earle as Garry Holmes |
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Elizabeth Mackey as Aunt Mandy |
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Martha Mattox as Nurse Sneed |
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Cesare Gravina as Tomaso Silvano |
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Martin Turner as Uncle Mose |
| Directing | William A. Seiter | Director |
| Writing | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Novel |
| Writing | Lois Zellner | Writer |
| Writing | Augustus E. Thomas | Theatre Play |
| Camera | John Stumar | Director of Photography |
