Always in the Way
1915 · 50 min
Drama
Four-year-old Dorothy, the daughter of rich lawyer Winfred North, is inconsolable over her mother's recent death. Her father, too absorbed with business to pay attention to his daughter and her problems, marries Helen Stillwell, a widow with her own two children. Helen ignores Dorothy while taking care of her own children, treating Dorothy as if she's always "in the way". Finally Dorothy can take no more and runs away. She is found by the Goodwins, a married missionary couple, but when they bring her home, Helen Stillwell denies knowing Dorothy at all, seeing a chance for her own children to inherit Winfred's wealth and cut Dorothy out of the picture altogether. The Goodwins take Dorothy to Africa with them to bring Christianity to the natives, but matters don't work out quite as well as they expected.
Crew
- Director J. Searle Dawley
- Writer Charles Harris
Cast
Mary Miles Minter
Dorothy North
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Ethelmary Oakland
Dorothy North, as a child
Lowell Sherman
Winfred North
Edna Holland
Mrs. Helen Stillwell
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Mabel Greene
May Stillwell
- H
Harold Meltzer
Alan Stillwell
- J
James Riley
Harry Blake
- A
Arthur Evers
Reverend Goodwin
- C
Charlotte Shelby
Mrs. Goodwin
Hal Clarendon
John Armstrong
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Franklin B. Coates
Robert Armstrong
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Harry Blakemore
Zulu Chief
Crew
- Director — J. Searle Dawley
- Writer — Charles Harris
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