Mother's Choice
Anna Lehnberg. the wife of an anarchist, lives in daily terror of the police. Her husband, an expert chemist, has invented several explosives to be used against the enemies of the cause, and the woman fears that her baby son will be trained to follow his father's dangerous life. A woman in the same tenement dies, and Anna substitutes her own child for the infant of the dead woman. She realizes that the bereaved husband, a man of high character, not knowing that the child is not his own. will give it the best of care. Later, when the anarchist is experimenting with his explosives, he is killed and she is left alone with the baby, who has taken her own child's place. Years pass, and George, her foster son, now grown to manhood, has won her heart, but she often thinks of her own child. Reading in the newspaper that her real son, now wealthy, is visiting the city on his yacht, she determines to see him. Posing as a flower seller, she goes to the yacht and after seeing her son to whom she does not disclose her identity, she sets out for shore. The boat is upset and she is rescued from drowning by her own son, and by George the lad whose place he has taken. Realizing the wrong she has done him, she confesses to George the secret of his birth, but learns he is perfectly happy with her, and as she has grown to care more for him than for her own child, she leaves the young millionaire in blissful ignorance of the fact that the "flower woman" whom he rescued was his own mother.
- Released
- 1914
Details
Release year: 1914
Storyline
Anna Lehnberg. the wife of an anarchist, lives in daily terror of the police. Her husband, an expert chemist, has invented several explosives to be used against the enemies of the cause, and the woman fears that her baby son will be trained to follow his father's dangerous life. A woman in the same tenement dies, and Anna substitutes her own child for the infant of the dead woman. She realizes that the bereaved husband, a man of high character, not knowing that the child is not his own. will give it the best of care. Later, when the anarchist is experimenting with his explosives, he is killed and she is left alone with the baby, who has taken her own child's place. Years pass, and George, her foster son, now grown to manhood, has won her heart, but she often thinks of her own child. Reading in the newspaper that her real son, now wealthy, is visiting the city on his yacht, she determines to see him. Posing as a flower seller, she goes to the yacht and after seeing her son to whom she does not disclose her identity, she sets out for shore. The boat is upset and she is rescued from drowning by her own son, and by George the lad whose place he has taken. Realizing the wrong she has done him, she confesses to George the secret of his birth, but learns he is perfectly happy with her, and as she has grown to care more for him than for her own child, she leaves the young millionaire in blissful ignorance of the fact that the "flower woman" whom he rescued was his own mother.
Top credits
- Carey L. Hastings — Anna Lehnberg
- Arthur Bauer — Lehnberg - Anna's Husband
- Charles Emerson — The Lehnberg Son
- Nolan Gane — George - Anna's Foster Son