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Lena Rivers
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Beulah Poynter [Helena Nichols / Lena Rivers], Lizzie Conway [Granny], Robert Tabor [Harry Graham], Charlie De Forest [Joel Scovendyke], Charles Hutchinson [Durward Belmont], Caroline Rankin [Nancy Scovendyke], Walter Armin [John Nichols], Marie Mason [Lucy Belmont], Winifred Burke [Caroline]
Cosmos Feature Film Corporation production; distributed on State Rights basis by Cosmos Feature Film Corporation. / From the play adapation Lena Rivers by Beulah Poynter of the novel Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes. / © 5 October 1914 by Cosmos Feature Film Corporation [LP3521]. Released 15 October 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as Lena Rivers (1910). The novel was subsequently filmed as Lena Rivers (1914).
Comedy-Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Lena Rivers is the orphaned granddaughter of Granny Nichols. Lena’s mother Helena had gone to the city and secretly married Harry Graham, a young Southerner who assumed the name of Rivers as a prank. He was falsely accused of murder and sent to prison. Helena, thinking he deserted her, returns home to give birth and die of a broken heart. Granny rears Lena, but poverty compels them to seek a home with Granny’s son John in Kentucky. Lena’s cousin Caroline makes her life miserable with her jealousy, contriving to blacken her reputation when Durward Belmont falls in love with Lena instead of Caroline. Durward’s mother has married Graham, who realizes upon meeting Lena that she is his daughter, but makes her promise not to tell his secret. Lena’s happiness is very nearly wrecked before the truth is revealed, but Graham finally makes known his relationship to her and all ends well.
Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: USA
Listing updated: 22 December 2024.
References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb; Website-NFPF.
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