Human Desire (1919)

ALL 10/31/1919 (en) Drama, Romance 56 Min
  • Release
    10/31/1919
  • Production
    Louis B. Mayer Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    Human Desire
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

The orphan Bernice (Stewart) is raised almost to womanhood by the good sisters in an Italian convent. Worshiping a picture of the Madonna and Child, she is seized by a great desire to have a child she can call her own. Running away to America, where she has been told babies are plentiful, she is taken in by Robert Bruce, an artist whose wife has refused to divorce him, and poses for his projected masterpiece, a Madonna. Bernice falls in love with the baby borrowed for this posing and is filled with sorrow when the child is taken away. Robert, who has become sincerely but honorably in love with the girl, adopts a baby for her. His wife meets Bernice and the baby, believes the worst, and insults her. Bernice takes the child and leaves the house, becoming lost in the city and finally finding refuge in a hospital where the child dies. Robert learns from his wife the reason for Bernice's departure, locates the girl, and, after divorcing his wife, marries her.

  1. Wilfrid North

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor



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Casts

  1. Anita Stewart

    Berenice

  2. Conway Tearle

    Robert Lane

  3. Vernon Steele

    Jasper Norton

  4. Eulalie Jensen

    Helen Lane

  5. Naomi Childers

    Marguerite Hunt

  6. Templar Saxe

    Paul Stapleton

  7. Hattie Delaro

    Miss March

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 7 , Crews : 4

Keyword

Human Desire (1919) 56 Min

ALL 10/31/1919 (en)
Drama, Romance
  • Release 10/31/1919
  • Production
    Louis B. Mayer Productions
  • Original title Human Desire
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

The orphan Bernice (Stewart) is raised almost to womanhood by the good sisters in an Italian convent. Worshiping a picture of the Madonna and Child, she is seized by a great desire to have a child she can call her own. Running away to America, where she has been told babies are plentiful, she is taken in by Robert Bruce, an artist whose wife has refused to divorce him, and poses for his projected masterpiece, a Madonna. Bernice falls in love with the baby borrowed for this posing and is filled with sorrow when the child is taken away. Robert, who has become sincerely but honorably in love with the girl, adopts a baby for her. His wife meets Bernice and the baby, believes the worst, and insults her. Bernice takes the child and leaves the house, becoming lost in the city and finally finding refuge in a hospital where the child dies. Robert learns from his wife the reason for Bernice's departure, locates the girl, and, after divorcing his wife, marries her.

  1. Wilfrid North

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Louis B. Mayer, Anita Stewart

    Producer