As It Is in Life
About As It Is in Life
A title says the mother is gone. George Forrester works at a pigeon farm and takes his lonely daughter with him. He meets an old sweetheart. He lets her go because he cannot support a wife and a child. Years later the daughter, grown, says she will never leave him. On a walk a young man notices her. Forrester tells her to choose. She marries the young man. He stays away from the wedding. She brings their child to him. He is delighted, and the two of them are together again.
Cast & crew
More about As It Is in Life
D. W. Griffith directed. Stanner E. V. Taylor wrote it. Billy Bitzer photographed it. Biograph released it on April 4, 1910. Wikipedia gives 16 minutes. George Nichols plays Forrester. Gladys Egan plays the daughter as a child. Mary Pickford plays her grown. Marion Leonard, Kate Bruce, and Mack Sennett are billed. A paper print is at the Library of Congress. A copy is on the Internet Archive as AsItIsInLife.
Themes
Making
Griffith used the pigeon farm as the father's workplace and the beach walk for the meeting with the young man.
Look
Billy Bitzer photographed the pigeon farm and the beach.
Preservation
Preserved from a Library of Congress paper print.
Notes
- The opening title is 'The Mother is Gone.'
- He drops the sweetheart for money, not because the daughter asks him to.
- The reunion is over the grandchild, after he has refused the wedding.
- The Library of Congress holds it as a paper print.
Scenes
- He sends the old sweetheart away.
- The daughter brings the baby and he takes them in.
Also available
- Internet Archive (AsItIsInLife)
