
Film
Destiny: or, the Soul of a Woman
1915 · 50m · Drama
The greatest heart gripping feature ever produced by Famous Metro Films. A drama that tells a wonderful story for old and young.
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Overview
Artist Standish using his wife Mary as his model finishes a painting of the Madonna. When the Connoisseur and the Parishioner inspect the picture, the Connoisseur tells Standish that the model was a one-time paramour. Buying the painting they depart. Standish confronts Mary, who tells him that she believed herself legally married to the Connoisseur. Unbelieving he ejects her and their baby son. Penniless Mary leaves her boy on the steps of a monastery. Years later before becoming a monk the boy is sent to see the world. Wandering into a café he is seduced by Beauty as the other inmates of the place, Lust, Rum, Avarice and Passion dance around him. The proprietor enters; it is Mary. Recognizing the crucifix, she left with him as a baby she persuades him to go back without revealing her identity. After he becomes a priest Mary, now a bedraggled old woman enters his church. She recognizes him and just before she dies her son gives her absolution.
Cast

Emily Stevens
Mary Gadman

George Le Guere
The Boy

Theodore Babcock
Standish

Fred Stone
Parishioner

Howard Truesdale
Father Anthony

Henri Bergman
Avarice

Vivien Oakland
Beauty

Ralph Austin
The Neighbor
Walter Hitchcock
The Connoisseur
Effingham Pinto
Lust
Del DeLois
Rum
Florence Short
Passion
Edwin Martin
Father Time
Baby Field
Baby
Joyce Beverley
Cynthia Foo
Crew
- Edwin CareweDirector
- William C. ThompsonDirector of Photography
Details
- Release date
- September 6, 1915
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Drama
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