Bonds of Love

Bonds of Love
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Directed byReginald Barker
Written byLouis Sherwin (scenario)
Based on
His House in Order
by Arthur Wing Pinero
Produced byGoldwyn Pictures
StarringPauline Frederick
CinematographyEdward Gheller
Distributed byGoldwyn Pictures
Release date
  • November 2, 1919 (1919-11-02)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles
Scene from the film. Pauline Frederick, Frankie Lee and Percy Standing.

Bonds of Love is a 1919 American silent romantic drama film directed by Reginald Barker and starring Pauline Frederick.[1] It is based on the 1906 Arthur Wing Pinero play His House in Order. It was distributed by Goldwyn Pictures.[2] Openings for the film were held at Clune's Theatre in Los Angeles, CA and at the Strand Theatre in New York City.[3]

Plot

Una Sayre, a governess in widower Daniel Cabot's home, saves his son, young Jimmy Cabot, from drowning. Through her attention to the child, she wins the love of her employer despite the plotting of Lucy and Harry Beekman, his late wife's brother and sister. When Una discovers a love letter written by a man whom the first wife was seeing, she visits him and demands that he return all of her letters. Lucy and Harry Beekman use this meeting to cast suspicions on Una's reputation, but Cabot eventually discovers that Una was acting in his own interest. He finally overcomes his devotion to the memory of his dead wife, and throws her greedy relatives out.

Cast

Preservation

Bonds of Love is currently presumed lost.[4][2] In February 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Motion Picture News, Volumes 20-24. Motion Picture News. 1919. p. 3643.
  2. 1 2 de Groat, Greta (July 12, 2011), The Pauline Frederick Website: Bonds of Love (1919), stanford.edu, retrieved May 18, 2026
  3. ↑ "AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Bonds of Love". afi.com. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
  4. ↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Bonds of Love". memory.loc.gov. January 5, 2017. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
  5. ↑ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. February 4, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2026.
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