The Mothering Heart
A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and begins an affair with a beautiful woman. His wife leaves him, returning to her mother’s home where she bears a child. When the husband is abandoned by his lady friend, remorse drives him to find his wife.
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Genres
Decade 1910s
This Movie is Melancholy, Heart-wrenching, Domestic, Moralistic, Dramatic & Period
About The Mothering Heart A 1913 drama by D. W. Griffith, notable for its portrayal of marital strife and the redemptive power of family life
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Audio English (United States)
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Cast
- Walter Miller Joe, young husband
- Charles Murray male Apache dancer
- Charles West new light
- John T. Dillon club patron
- Josephine Crowell woman collecting ironing
- Kate Bruce young wife's mother
- Lillian Gish young wife
- Viola Barry idle woman
- Adolph Lestina doctor
- Jennie Lee wash customer
- William J. Butler club patron
- Christy Cabanne outside club
- Donald Crisp Self
- Edward Dillon club patron
- William Elmer doorman
- Dell Henderson club patron
- Harry Hyde outside club
- J. Jiquel Lanoe outside club, club patron
- Charles Hill Mailes club patron
- Mae Marsh Self
- Joseph McDermott among waiters
- Alfred Paget club patron
- Gus Pixley club patron
- W. C. Robinson club patron
- Henry B. Walthall club patron
- Gertrude Bambrick Female Apache Dancer
Director
- D. W. Griffith
- D.W. Griffith
Screenwriter
- Hazel Hubbard
Director of Photography
- Billy Bitzer
- G. W. Bitzer
Producer
- D.W. Griffith
- American Mutoscope & Biograph
