Orphans of the Storm (1921)
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
Director:
D.W. Griffith
Writer:
D.W. Griffith
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Lillian Gish as Henriette Girard |
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Dorothy Gish as Louise Girard |
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Joseph Schildkraut as Chevalier de Vaudrey |
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Creighton Hale as Picard |
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Monte Blue as Danton |
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Sidney Herbert as Robespierre |
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Lucille La Verne as Mother Frochard |
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Sheldon Lewis as Jacques Frochard |
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Frank Puglia as Pierre |
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Morgan Wallace as Marquis de Praille |
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Frank Losee as Count de Linieres |
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Leslie King as Jacques-Forget-Not |
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Katherine Emmet as Countess de Linieres |
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Flora Finch as A Starving Peasant (uncredited) |
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Louis Wolheim as Executioner (uncredited) |
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Marcia Harris as Henriette's Landlady (uncredited) |
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Lee Kohlmar as King Louis XVI (uncredited) |
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Kate Bruce as Sister Geneviève (uncredited) |
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Adolph Lestina as The Doctor (uncredited) |
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Kenny Delmar as The Chevalier - as a Boy |
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Herbert Sutch as Meat Carver at Festival |
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Fay Marbe as Dancer (uncredited) |
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Frank O'Connor as Party Guest (uncredited) |
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Jill Rainsford as |
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Frances Robinson as Henriette as a Child (uncredited) |
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Rita Rogan as Louise as a child (uncredited) |
| Directing | D.W. Griffith | Director |
| Camera | Billy Bitzer | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Paul H. Allen | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Herbert Sutch | Assistant Director |
| Sound | William Frederick Peters | Original Music Composer |
| Production | D.W. Griffith | Producer |
| Art | Charles M. Kirk | Art Direction |
| Writing | D.W. Griffith | Screenplay |
| Editing | James Smith | Editor |
| Editing | Rose Smith | Editor |
| Camera | Hendrik Sartov | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Adolphe d'Ennery | Theatre Play |
| Writing | Eugène Cormon | Theatre Play |
| Art | Edward Scholl | Set Designer |
