The Diamond Star

When John Wilson comes home drunk, his marriage collapses, and he agrees to live separately from his wife in their apartment. His evenings now free, he takes up with a socialite, but uncomfortable with her social ambition, forgets to attend a dinner party she has thrown in his honor. To atone, he buys her an extravagant diamond pin, but before he can deliver it he sees an old suitor leaving his wife’s side of the apartment. Consumed first by jealousy, then remorse, he discovers he still loves the woman he married. A child next door finds the diamond pin while playing in the Wilson apartment and innocently takes it to Mrs. Wilson. Misreading the attached note, Mrs. Wilson assumes the pin is meant as a peace offering and takes her husband back.

Wilfred Lucas

John Wilson

Florence Barker

Mrs. John Wilson

Mabel Normand

Guest at Dinner Party

John T. Dillon

Jack Dillon

Francis J. Grandon

Florence La Badie

Henry Lehrman

Dorothy West

• D.W. GriffithDirector

Release date

February 20, 1911

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

15m