Film

Sweet Lavender

1920 · 50m · Drama

Ruth Holt, owner of a boardinghouse in a small college town, lives with her pretty niece "Sweet Lavender," who believes that Ruth is her mother. When boarder Clem Hale, president of the freshman class, is the victim of a prank played by several of his classmates, Lavender rescues him and the two fall in love. Clem's guardian, Horace Weatherburn, becomes concerned about his ward's adoration for a "commoner" and arrives to break up their romance. Ruth, who recognizes Washburn as Lavender's real father and the man who brought her sister grief, strongly opposes the match and sends Lavender off to boarding school. Upon learning that Clem is seriously ill, Lavender runs away to comfort her sweetheart and, in her plight, faints by the side of the road. Weatherburn finds her and is so touched by her concern, that he relents his previous disapproval. Ruth then reveals Lavender's parentage to her father who offers his blessing to the couple.

Mary Miles Minter

Lavender

Sylvia Ashton

Dotty Driscoe

J.M. Dumont

Mr. Drisc

Starke Patteson

Billy Driscoe

Milton Sills

Horace Weatherburn

Harold Goodwin

Clem Hale

Jane Keckley

Ruth Holt

Theodore Roberts

Professor Phenyl

Flora Hollister

Minnie

Laura Anson

• Paul PowellDirector
• Beulah Marie DixWriter
• Arthur Wing PineroWriter

Release date

October 4, 1920

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

50m

Genres

Drama