What Love Can Do

What Love Can Do

50 mins | Drama | June 12, 1916

Widower Calvert Paige leaves his baby daughter Johnnie in New York and goes West where he becomes wealthy as a mine owner and newspaperman. Lil Magill, who came to work on his newspaper, becomes infatuated with Paige, as he is with her, and they become lovers. After several years Lil has become a successful author but Paige has tired of her. Their estrangement grows when Lil takes the side of striking miners against him.

What Love Can Do

50 mins | Drama | June 12, 1916

What Love Can Do
Widower Calvert Paige leaves his baby daughter Johnnie in New York and goes West where he becomes wealthy as a mine owner and newspaperman. Lil Magill, who came to work on his newspaper, becomes infatuated with Paige, as he is with her, and they become lovers. After several years Lil has become a successful author but Paige has tired of her. Their estrangement grows when Lil takes the side of striking miners against him.
Producers Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Red Feather Photoplays
Original title What Love Can Do
Directors Jay Hunt
Writers Gertrude H. Anderson, Jay Hunt

Cast

Adele Farrington

as Lil Magill

C. Norman Hammond

as Calvert Page

Orin Jackson

as John Morris

Kingsley Benedict

as 'Brad' Hamilton

Mina Cunard

as Johnnie Paige

Florence Hale

as Aunt Mary

Doc Crane

as Matthew

Harry Mann

as Tony