The Family Secret (1924)

  • NR
  • 09/28/1924 (US)
  • Drama, Comedy, Crime
  • 1h 10m

Overview

The daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father violently disapproves of. The father, in an excess of parental concern, separates the lovers by sending his daughter away so that she might forget her lover, unaware of their married state. During this time, she gives birth to a daughter. After some months, the young mother returns to her family manor and presents her father with his new granddaughter, which causes a most unfortunate scene. Unbeknownst to the young woman, her enraged father falsely accuses his son-in-law of theft and has him incarcerated in order to separate the lovers in an irrational attempt to force his daughter to forget this "unworthy" young man.

William A. Seiter

Director

Lois Zellner

Writer

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Novel

Cast

Baby Peggy's headshot

Baby Peggy

Peggy Holmes
Gladys Hulette's headshot

Gladys Hulette

Margaret Selfridge
Frank Currier's headshot

Frank Currier

Simon Selfridge
Lucy Beaumont's headshot

Lucy Beaumont

Miss Abigail Selfridge
Edward Earle's headshot

Edward Earle

Garry Holmes
Elizabeth Mackey's headshot

Elizabeth Mackey

Aunt Mandy
Martha Mattox's headshot

Martha Mattox

Nurse Sneed
Cesare Gravina's headshot

Cesare Gravina

Tomaso Silvano

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