The Age of Desire (1923)
Janet Loring is a young widow with a young son. She marries millionaire Malcolm Trask, but doesn't tell him about her previous marriage or her son, Ranny. Abandoned to the streets by Janet, Ranny eventually moves in with a bookseller and her granddaughter Margy. As the years go by Janet comes to regret abandoning her son and takes out ads looking for him. Marcio, a vicious blackmailer, sends Ranny to Janet posing as her son, not knowing that the young boy actually is her son. Complications ensue.
Director: Frank Borzage
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Josef Swickard as Marcio |
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William Collier Jr. as Ranny - Age 21 |
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Frederick Truesdell as Malcolm Trask (as Frank Truesdell) |
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Bruce Guerin as Ranny - Age 3 |
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Frankie Lee as Ranny - Age 13 |
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J. Farrell MacDonald as Dan Reagan |
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Mary Jane Irving as Margy - Age 10 |
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Myrtle Stedman as Janet Loring |
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Aggie Herring as Ann Reagan |
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Mary Philbin as Margy - Age 18 |
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Edith Yorke as Gran'ma |
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Bess Flowers as |
| Directing | Frank Borzage | Director |
| Writing | Mary O'Hara | Writer |
| Writing | Lenore J. Coffee | Writer |
| Writing | Dixie Willson | Writer |
| Crew | Arthur H. Jacobs | Presenter |
| Production | Frank Borzage | Producer |
| Camera | Chester A. Lyons | Director of Photography |
| Art | Frank Ormston | Art Direction |