The Secret Sin (1915)
A Vital-Throbbing Drama in Which Miss Sweet Plays Dual Roles
Blanche Sweet has a dual role in this picture -- she plays twin sisters, Edith, a sweet, normal young girl, and Grace, who is a drug fiend. They live in poverty with their parents and their father (Hal Clements) finally finds work. Because he is faithful to his boss (Thomas Meighan), he is offered a partnership.
- Date of release
- 1915-10-21
- Runtime
- 50m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Frank Reicher
Casting
- Blanche Sweet — Edith Martin / Grace Martin
- Alice Knowland — Mrs. Martin
- Sessue Hayakawa — Lin Foo
- Thomas Meighan — Jack Herron
- Hallie Clements — Dan Martin
Interesting facts
The Secret Sin is a surviving 1915 American silent drama film produced by Jesse L. Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Frank Reicher and starred Blanche Sweet, Thomas Meighan and Sessue Hayakawa. This film often thought lost actually survives at the Library of Congress and along with a few other surviving Lasky features from 1915 to 1917 allows viewing of Blanche Sweet during her Paramount period immediately after she left D. W. Griffith's employ. In this film Sweet has a rare chance to act in a double exposure scene playing two different characters.
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