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Two Memories
(1909) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel / 318 feet
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: Marion Leonard [Marion Francis], David Miles [Henry Lawrence], Mary Pickford [Marion’s sister], Charles Avery [a party guest], John R. Cumpson [a party guest], Anita Hendrie [a party guest], Arthur V. Johnson [a party guest], Florence Lawrence [a party guest], Owen Moore [a party guest], Herbert Prior [a party guest], Gertrude Robinson [a party guest], Mack Sennett [a party guest], Anthony O’Sullivan [a servant], Clara T. Bracy, Robert Harron, [?] Lottie Pickford?
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / Scenario by [?] D.W. Griffith? Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / © 22 May 1909 by Biograph Company [H127384]. Released 24 May 1909; in a split-reel with Eloping with Aunty (1909). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Pickford’s film debut.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Henry Lawrence and Marion Brands were youthful lovers and in a spirit of jest aroused his jealousy. They quarrel and separate. Both headstrong, they never meet again. Ten years elapse, and Marion has developed into a cold-hearted woman of society, ever in the vortex of the social swim, until her tender sensibilities become blunted into absolute nonchalance. Henry, meanwhile has fallen into ill health and feels the end of his career is not far distant, so reading in the newspaper of Marion’s return from Europe, writes asking her to call that he might see once more the face so dear to him. She is entertaining when the note arrives, so laughs it to scorn, but her company of friends dare her to go, which she does, accompanied by them. What a sight greets her. There in the chair sits Henry, clutching her portrait, dead. Oh, how she longs for the yesterday.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 17 December 2024.
References: Barry-Griffith p. 41; Eyman-Pickford p. 323; Spehr-American p. 4; Whitfield-Pickford p. 416 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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