Film

The Age of Desire

1923 · 1h · Drama

Janet Loring is a young widow with a young son. She marries millionaire Malcolm Trask, but doesn't tell him about her previous marriage or her son, Ranny. Abandoned to the streets by Janet, Ranny eventually moves in with a bookseller and her granddaughter Margy. As the years go by Janet comes to regret abandoning her son and takes out ads looking for him. Marcio, a vicious blackmailer, sends Ranny to Janet posing as her son, not knowing that the young boy actually is her son. Complications ensue.

Josef Swickard

Marcio

William Collier Jr.

Ranny - Age 21

Frederick Truesdell

Malcolm Trask (as Frank Truesdell)

Bruce Guerin

Ranny - Age 3

Frankie Lee

Ranny - Age 13

J. Farrell MacDonald

Dan Reagan

Mary Jane Irving

Margy - Age 10

Myrtle Stedman

Janet Loring

Aggie Herring

Ann Reagan

Mary Philbin

Margy - Age 18

Edith Yorke

Gran'ma

Bess Flowers

• Frank BorzageDirector · Producer
• Dixie WillsonWriter
• Lenore J. CoffeeWriter
• Mary O'HaraWriter
• Chester A. LyonsDirector of Photography

Release date

September 1, 1923

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h

Genres

Drama

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