The Mothering Heart
A young couple faces hardship, but the husband’s rise to success leads to an affair, forcing his wife to choose between her marriage and her own future
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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




