Lois Weber

Lois Weber plays a young wife in an isolated house. She and her infant are unexpectedly left alone by her husband when the maid has abruptly given notice, leaving her latchkey under the doormat. A passing tramp discovers the situation and tries to break in. When the woman rings her husband, the distress call is terminated when the tramp cuts the phone line. (imdb comments)

A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion gets him in trouble with the local community. (imdb)

Hypocrites follows the parallel stories of a monk in the eighteenth century and a modern day priest as they struggle to find truth and combat the hypocrisy of society. A beautiful nude see-through woman represents truth and is the desire of the monk. He follows her around and attempts to make art out of her. (imdb)

The Professor dispenses the wisdom of the ages and does not make a living wage. The sons of the rich and powerful are students lacking any motivation. The next door neighbor of the Professor, businessman Olsen, has money and lots of food, while the Griggs have hardly any. Both Peter Olsen and Reverend Gates are taken by the beauty of young Amelia Griggs. When rich son Phil West falls for Amelia Griggs and befriends the poor Reverend Gates, he finally sees the difference in his life and theirs. (imdb)

An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame. (imdb)

Each of three room-mates proposes to the same woman. (imdb)

Ray Sturgis, leader of the fashionable Long Island jazz set, is engaged to "Egypt" Hagen, an up-to-date girl in every respect. Egypt is arrested at a roadhouse raid, and at her mother's bidding, the Reverend Norman Lodge arranges for her freedom. At a fancy-dress ball, when Ray wears a costume made of newspaper headlines concerning her arrest, Egypt is offended. Seen constantly in the company of Reverend Lodge, her reputation causes church people to take up the matter with the bishop.

Mildred Harris plays the classic poor working girl. Linnie (Harris) works behind the perfume counter in a department store and goes home to a miserable family life -- her mother (Ann Schaefer) neglects her, her father is an invalid, and her brother is an anarchist. One day, Preston Winfield (Kenneth Harlan), the son of the store's owner, sees how miserable she is and offers to show her a week's worth of good times.

Characters in the film attend a movie titled Life's Mirror (pointedly directed by one "Lois Weber"), where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. A shop girl "stepping out" with her boyfriend watches her screen surrogate conceive a child and retire to a home for unwed mothers. An estranged married couple watches as the wife's onscreen counterpart, played by Weber herself, leaves an uncaring husband to return to her post as a settlement worker.

A young working girl must suport her family on only five dollars a week. The strain of trying to feed, house and clothe her mother, her father and three brothers finally gets to be too much, and she winds up selling her body for a pair of shoes. (imdb)

Pretty Ann, and Joe, the hostler, one day chance to meet. Strong is Joe, and simple, and Ann is shy and sweet. As man and maid have done before, they love, and marry, too. And live happy ever after? Ah, this tale is new to you! Yes, the tale is drear, prosaic; and so poetry won't do. A baby boy comes to bless the union. Joe is working in the stables when they tell him of his joy: his heart is gay and happy, and he tells the horses so. (imdb)

Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe. (imdb)

An aging veteran, tired of his life in the veterans' home, decides to move in with his wealthy uncle.

A young woman caring for her mentally disabled brother falls for a fisherman who does not return her affections.

Aratus, a chemist, invents an chemical that will petrify living things. He tests it on flowers and small animals. It all goes according to plan until his wife falls in.

A cobbler's daughter is rescued from her abusive father by an artist, who hires her as an assistant, then paints her, winning accolades for his work.

A young man leaves for war, his betrothed hears he has died in battle, and she joins a convent.

According to this Lois Weber production, men don't really seem to know what they want at all – first Frank (J. Frank Glendon) wants to be an inventor. Then he wants to marry his childhood sweetheart, Hallie (the lovely Claire Windsor). Then he wants children. Then, when his inventions bring him financial success, he becomes restless, so he takes up with another woman. Eventually he figures out that the woman's reputation is less than squeaky clean, so he wants his wife back.

Jewel stays with her grizzled, angry grandfather while her parents are overseas on business. Family squabbling is brought to heel through love and understanding from Jewel's pure love for others and trust in Divine Love.

A woman suspects her husband of adultery when his stenographer, Daisy, hurts her foot walking through a doorway.