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A STORY OF WOMANS GREATEST SACRIFICE. THE FATE OF A CHILD HANGING ON THE CAPRICE OF A SOCIETY BUTTERFLY
Lost film. David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.Read moreLess
Lost film. David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.
The story
Lost film. David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.
Cast & crew
Betty CompsonLouise Boucher / Deloryse
Clive BrookDavid Compton / David Anson-Pond
Josephine EarleMrs. Anson-Pond
Marie AultHenrietta
Myrtle PeterDavy
Victor McLaglenNubian Slave (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Writer
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Director
- Graham Cutts
- Writer
- Graham Cutts
- Editor
- Alma Reville
- Producer
- Michael Balcon
- Producer
- Victor Saville