Farm girl Dorothy, clashes with her traditional father over her ambition to become a writer and eventually leaves to pursue her dreams after meeting an artist.
Social & External
The people behind it
Alma Hanlon
Dorothy Miller
Harry Benham
Artist
Louis Thiel
Dorothy's father
Florence Short
Spitfire
Emma Tansey
Dorothy's Mother
Robert B. Mantell Jr.
Lucius
Louis Stern
Randall
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Bella Donna ( Pauline Frederick ) a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine ( Thomas Holding ) into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi. To get rid of Nigel, she begins slowly poisoning him. However, Nigel's friend Dr. Isaacson arrives in time to save him. Now Baroudi wants nothing to do with Bella, and neither does her husband. Totally alone now, the distraught Bella wanders off into the desert.
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A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
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A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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