Divorce and the Daughter

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Divorce and the Daughter is a silent film, released in 1916. It was directed by Frederick Sullivan, and starred Florence La Badie, Edwin Stanley, Ethelmary Oakland and Kathryn Adams.

[edit] Plot

Alicia is a poor girl living in the city with her family. When her father receives an inheritance, he is able to follow his dream of becoming an artist and moves his family near an artist's colony in the country. There he falls prey to a scheming widow, and he and his wife separate. Alicia, meanwhile, has become involved with a young man who is the widow's accomplice, and she throws over her former suitor, Dr. John Osborne. The young man is a proponent of free love, but he gets a little too free with Alicia and she beans him with a small statuette. She goes running back to her doctor sweetheart, and her parents decide to reconcile, since their separation obviously isn't doing their children any good.