Lena Rivers (1910)

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

12 min

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman leaves home to find work and secretly marries a wealthy man. After a series of misunderstandings separate them, their daughter Lena grows up with her grandmother and later reunites with her father when he recognizes a locket with her mother's picture.

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What happens

Lena Rivers is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company. The film follows a young woman who leaves home to search for employment and becoming married to a wealthy man, but the marriage is kept secret. The husband is arrested by mistake and by the time he is freed, his wife and child depart and he believes them dead. The young woman entrusts her baby, Lena, to her mother before her death. At age 16, Lena goes to the city is visited by her father, but the relationship is only known when he sees a picture of her mother in her locket. The film was an adaptation of Mary Jane Holmes' 1856 novel Lena Rivers and was released on August 12, 1910. It had a wide national release and received positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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