tt0012532 Orphans of the Storm (1921)Director : D.W. Griffith

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Genre : Drama

Cast : : , Lillian Gish as Henriette Girard , Dorothy Gish as Louise Girard , Joseph Schildkraut as Chevalier de Vaudrey , Frank Losee as Count de Linieres , Katherine Emmet as Countess de Linieres , Morgan Wallace as Marquis de Praille , Lucille La Verne as Mother Frochard , Sheldon Lewis as Jacques Frochard , Frank Puglia as Pierre Frochard , Creighton Hale as Picard , Leslie King as Jacques-Forget-Not , Monte Blue as Danton , Sidney Herbert as Robespierre , Lee Kohlmar as King Louis XVI , Marcia Harris as Henriette's landlady

Plot : Henriette as nonetheless as Louise, a foundling, are raised mutually for sisters. When Louise operates blind, Henriette insists to obtain bother of her forever… See more » |

Run Time : 150 min | Germany:152 min

Country : USA

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Language : English

Filming Locations : Mamaroneck, New York, USA

Company : D.W. Griffith Productions

Trivia : Lillian Gish originally suggested D.W. Griffith flick the entirely celebrated fiddle “The Two Orphans,” which tried and true been translated into 40 languages, viewing her aunt Dorothy Gish inside the role of Henriette. Interestingly, Griffith type Dorothy for Louise, the still blind victim, whilst it was Lillian who was most excellent acknowledged because fiddling helpless heroines. Most who knew her may attest that Dorothy was the numerous vivacious plus robust willed of the two sisters. Lillian tried and true written of her aunt inside 1927 “She is laughter, however on the cloudy existence of life; nil worries her or saddens her or cares her lastingly.”

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Plot Summary : Henriette as at any rate as Louise, a foundling, are raised joined since sisters. When Louise works blind, Henriette promises to seize trouble of her forever. They depart to Paris to make out if Louise’s blindness may well troth cured, on the distinctive hand are separated while an aristocrat lusts behind Henriette as at any rate as abducts her. Only Chevalier de Vaudrey is section to her, as at any rate as they collapse love. The French Revolution replaces the corrupt Aristocracy in addition to the equally corrupt Robespierre. De Vaudrey, who has steadily been alright to peasants, is condemned to bereavement as someone an aristocrat, as at any rate as Henriette as harboring him. Will revolutionary hero Danton, the exclusively express as mercy inside the novel regime, troth able to until each other cherish the guillotine?

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