Fate's Turning
About Fate's Turning
John Lawson Jr., played by Charles H. West, has a breakdown and goes to a hotel for a rest, leaving his fiancée Grace behind. He falls for Mary, a waitress, and they become engaged. Word comes that his father is dying. He goes home, and after the funeral he writes Mary that the difference in class ends the engagement. On the wedding day Grace sends him into the next room, where Mary is lying with their child. He kneels and takes her hand. The Biograph Bulletin says they marry.
Cast & crew
More about Fate's Turning
D. W. Griffith directed. G. W. Bitzer photographed it. Biograph produced it, and the General Film Company distributed it. Release date January 23, 1911. The Biograph Bulletin of that day says the breakdown came from taking over the family business, a cause the picture itself does not show.
Themes
Making
The bulletin supplies a business reason for the breakdown that Griffith never puts on the screen.
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the hotel dining room and the wedding-day confrontation.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
The film survives at the Library of Congress. A copy is also on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Stephanie Longfellow plays Grace, the fiancée. Dorothy Bernard plays Mary. Donald Crisp plays the valet.
- Grace Henderson plays Grace's mother.
- Jack Pickford is among the people at the hotel. Edwin August is at the wedding.
- A print survives at the Library of Congress and runs about 17 minutes.
Scenes
- On the wedding day Grace shows John the next room, where Mary lies with their child.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Fate's turning (1911).webm)
