The Girl Who Stayed at Home

Overview

Ralph Grey visits France with his shipbuilder father, and falls in love with Blossom, granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not reconciled with the Union. Blossom, however, is engaged to a French nobleman. When war breaks out, Ralph enlists, while his brother Jim, a heartbreaker, is drafted.

Directed by D.W. Griffith

Top cast

Adolph Lestina

Mr. France

Carol Dempster

Atoline France

Frances Parks

The chum

Richard Barthelmess

Ralph Grey

Robert Harron

James Grey

Syn De Conde

Count de Brissac

George Fawcett

Edward Grey

Kate Bruce

Mrs. Edward Grey

Edward Peil Sr.

Turnverein Terror

Clarine Seymour

Cutie Beautiful

Tully Marshall

Cutie's old friend

David Butler

Johann August Kant

J

Joseph Scott

Himself (as The Hon. Joseph Scott, Head of the Draft Exemption Board)

E

E.H. Crowder

Himself (as Provost Marshal Gen. E.H. Crowder)

G

General March

Himself

N

Newton Baker

Himself (as Secretary of War Newton Baker) (as Secretary of War Newton Bakr)

M

Milla Davenport

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