Heritage

Heritage

40 mins | Drama | July 29, 1915

Kate, whose father, a university graduate, died when she was very young, is adopted by her tenement neighbor, Mrs. McMahon, after her mother, a woman of refinement, dies. At ten, the ill-nourished girl, who has grown up watching her drunken foster father fight with her overworked foster mother, goes to work in a factory after Mr. McMahon loses his job. During the next eight years, Kate's stepbrother, Big Bill McMahon, becomes her friend, sweetheart and protector.

Heritage

40 mins | Drama | July 29, 1915

Heritage
Kate, whose father, a university graduate, died when she was very young, is adopted by her tenement neighbor, Mrs. McMahon, after her mother, a woman of refinement, dies. At ten, the ill-nourished girl, who has grown up watching her drunken foster father fight with her overworked foster mother, goes to work in a factory after Mr. McMahon loses his job. During the next eight years, Kate's stepbrother, Big Bill McMahon, becomes her friend, sweetheart and protector.
Producers Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Original title Heritage
Directors Robert Z. Leonard
Writers Harry G. Stafford, Robert Z. Leonard

Cast

Ella Hall

as Kate

Robert Z. Leonard

as Big Bill McMahon (as Robert Leonard)

Mae Talbot

as Big Bill's mother

Mark Fenton

as Big Bill's father (as Marc Fenton)

Allan Forrest

as Guy Melton

Anna Lehr

as Marion Melton (as Anne Lehr)

Helen Wright

as Mrs. Melton