The Fear Woman
"The Tragedy of a Woman who Ruined Her Reputation to Save Her Friend — A Drama of the Ghosts of Yesterday."
1919 · 50m Drama
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The Fear Woman
Overview
When her drunken father dies from falling downstairs on the night of her engagement announcement, Helen Winthrop finds a note from him warning that drinking has ruined the family's past four generations. She breaks her engagement to lawyer Robert Craig so that she can test herself as she fears that her children might inherit the habit. After sacrificing her reputation to save that of her adulterous married friend Stella Scarr, Helen goes to a resort hotel where she wins a tennis tournament and flirts with Percy Farwell, the son of social climber Mrs. Honorah Farwell. In order to break up her son's romance with a supposedly disgraced woman, Mrs. Farwell hires Robert Craig.
Director and cast
- Pauline Frederick as Helen Winthrop
- Milton Sills as Robert Craig
- Lydia Yeamans Titus as Mrs. Honorah Farwell
- Walter Hiers as Percy Farwell
- Emmett King as Harrison Winthrop
- Harry Northrup as Sidney Scarr
- Peaches Jackson as Child (uncredited)
- Ernest Pasque as Bruce Terhune
- Beverly Travers as Stella Scarr
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