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The Unveiling
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel / 998 feet
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: Robert Harron [the boy], Mabel Normand [the showgirl], Grace Henderson [the boy’s mother], William J. Butler, Claire McDowell
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a story by F.P. Bayer. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / © 17 October 1911 by Biograph Company. Released 16 October 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA by The General Film Company, Incorporated, in 1916.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The boy, who is the idol of his widowed mother, returns from college with a collegiate record she is justly proud of. To mark the occasion his boyhood sweetheart and her mother come to spend a few days. The too-indulgent mother, however, is blind to the fact that the boy is spending most of his evenings in full dress, which should have told her that Bohemian society was engaging his attention. A showgirl, who learns that he will soon come into great wealth, determines to win him. Unsophisticated as he is, he is an easy prey. A friend of the family warns the mother of her boy’s danger, which she is loath to believe until positive proof is presented. Pleadings are in vain, for the boy is fascinated, and so the sorrowing mother, feeling she has lost all that she has lived for, determines upon self-destruction and is prevented only by the timely appearance of her visiting friend, who devises the plan that awakens the boy. She has the mother pretend suicide on account of the loss of fortune. This shows the boy the true nature and design of the object of his infatuation.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Families: Mother-son relationships
Listing updated: 5 October 2023.
References: Barry-Griffith p. 43; Fussell-Normand p. 243; Spehr-American p. 4 : Website-IMDb.
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