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  • Out of the Past (1913)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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Out of the Past (1913)
Short | Short, Drama

Rose Vale is a poor country girl, she lives with her brother Tom. Brown, an artist from the city in moderate circumstances, is visiting the country and meets Rose. He induces her to pose for him. Later Rose's brother Tom is arrested for ...See moreRose Vale is a poor country girl, she lives with her brother Tom. Brown, an artist from the city in moderate circumstances, is visiting the country and meets Rose. He induces her to pose for him. Later Rose's brother Tom is arrested for moonshining and is sentenced to a term in prison. Rose, desolate, visits the city seeking employment. There she again meets Brown and poses for him some more. Their friendship ripens into love and later they are married. Their happiness is blessed by the birth of a baby girl and Brown is immensely happy with his beautiful wife and child. Some time later Rose receives a letter from her brother whose term in prison has just ended, asking her to meet him. This she does and Brown, seeing her, follows her. There he sees her embracing Tom and suspecting other things he cruelly and without giving her a chance for explanations, deserts her and the baby. Time passes and Rose and the child make their home with Tom. The child Violet has now developed into a beautiful young woman and seeks employment to help support her old and weak mother Rose. Brown meantime has grown prosperous and under the name of Markham owns one of the best studios in the city. There ultra-fashionable men and women of questionable character were want to congregate and one of these women who knew Violet induced her to agree to pose for Markham. This Violet does and immediately Belmont, a companion of Markham, looks upon her as his prey. Markham gives a dinner to his many friends in honor of Violet and there is much carousing. Violet's friend ashamed for having brought Violet into such company and seeing that the men are bent on accomplishing her ruin, tells Violet's mother. Rose rushes to the place and there she recognizes Markham as her former husband Brown. He realizes that it was his own daughter whom he was about to inveigle into wrong and regrets his actions, he follows Rose and Violet home and there on seeing their sorrowful plight, he realizes his sad mistake and proceeds to make amends for the many wrongs he had done. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Jun 24, 1913 (United States)

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Pearl White
Rose Vale - the Country Girl Rose Vale - the Country Girl   See fewer
Chester Barnett
Brown - aka Markham - the Artist from the City Brown - aka Markham - the Artist from the City   See fewer
Vivian Prescott
Violet - the daughter - as an Adult Violet - the daughter - as an Adult   See fewer
Joseph Belmont
Belmont - Markham's Pal Belmont - Markham's Pal   See fewer
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