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The Honor of the Ormsbys (1915)
Short | Short, Drama

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The Honor of the Ormsbys (1915)

Short | Short, Drama

When Maurice Ormsbys, son of John Ormsbys, leaves for New York, his father admonishes him to be careful with his conduct, and impresses him with the fact that for ten generations no stigma has ever been known to the family name. Maurice ...See moreWhen Maurice Ormsbys, son of John Ormsbys, leaves for New York, his father admonishes him to be careful with his conduct, and impresses him with the fact that for ten generations no stigma has ever been known to the family name. Maurice promises to be good, but fate decrees that he becomes acquainted with Mary Hampden, an actress, playing at the Folly Theater, New York. He visits gay cafés with her, and is successful in winning Mary away from her admirers by his magnetic personality. A few months later Maurice asks her to become his wife, but she gives him a negative reply, perceiving that he is a little under the influence of liquor. She promises to give him a definite answer if he should propound the same question with a clear mind. The next day he puts the same query to her, and she. after making him understand the disparity of their stations in life, agrees to marry him. His father reads of his marriage to the actress, and forthwith dispatches a letter to him, telling him that from now on his allowance will be suspended. Maurice receives the letter the morning after a night of debauch. Mary manages to get hold of the letter and thereupon decides that Maurice must make his own way in the world without the assistance of his father's financial aid. Casting aside their life of affluence, they take modest quarters in another part of the city, and live happily for a while. But the lure of their former life proves too strong for Maurice, and they rapidly become poverty stricken. After five years of squalid living, Maurice again appeals to his father for aid, but the old man, who has become a recluse, tore up the letter. His butler, Roberts, learns of Maurice's plight, and sends him $50. The letter falls into the son's hands as he is leaving his poor surroundings and instead of returning with it to his wife, spends it all in a saloon. He is thrown out dead drunk, and shoved on a ship bound for China. One of Mary's former admirers learns of her struggle and comes to her. Mary is about to go with him when her little baby comes creeping towards her. This brings Mary to a realization of her act, and she orders the tormentor out of the room. Roberts and his wife are determined to seek Maurice and place him on the right path. He learns where the son and his wife live and brings her and the baby to an unused part of the Ormsbys mansion. The strain of worry begin to take effect on John Ormsby, and he falls seriously ill. The doctor orders careful nursing, so the old butler and his wife put Mary into service. In time the old man becomes himself again, and thinks of what a happy life his son would have led if he had married such a charming girl as his nurse. He even offers to marry her, but she refuses, feeling that her husband would return. At last Maurice returns, his long forced abstinence from drink curing him of the desire for liquor. He trails his wife to his father's home, where a happy reconciliation takes place. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Mary Fuller Mary Hempden of the Folly Theatre Mary Hempden of the Folly Theatre See fewer	The Huntress of Men (1916)
Charles Ogle John Ormsby John Ormsby See fewer	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
Matt Moore Maurice Ormsby Maurice Ormsby See fewer	Rain (1932)
Curtis Benton Varden Varden See fewer	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)