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The Old Maid
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by John B. O’Brien
Cast: Blanche Sweet [Dorothy], Jack Conway [Benjie], Spottiswoode Aitken [the father], Mary Alden [the other woman], Howard Gage [the minister], Billie West [Dorothy’s friend], Violet Wilkey [Dorothy, as a child]
Majestic Motion Picture Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation. / Scenario by George Pattullo, from the poem “Dorothy in the Garret” by John Townsend Trowbridge. Production supervision by D.W. Griffith. / Released 13 December 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Old Maid Dorothy, stooping low, goes to the attic of her home, and in an old chest and the old spinning wheel, finds traces of the old days. She brings to mind visions of her youth and the cause of her being still an old maid. In love with Benjie, of the same village, she was happy, as they went to school hand-in-hand. By young-adulthood they were still in love and planning a future of happiness together. “But once, with angry words they part,” and Dorothy, repentant, watches and waits by the empty gate for Benjie, who comes no more. Then one day she hears of his marriage to another. Years pass and Benjie, successful in business, has grown old and crabbed and wrinkled, while Dorothy sits among her attic treasures, still sweet-faced and kind-eyed, content in her faithfulness to her lost love.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 22 May 2024.
References: Drew-Speaking p. 286; Weaver-Twenty p. 28 : Website-IMDb.
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