Faith (1916 film)

Faith (also known as The Virtuous Outcast) is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by James Kirkwood and starring Mary Miles Minter.

Her husband is killed and when approaching motherhood forces Helen to confess her secret marriage her father is furiously angry.

Some fifteen years later, Thorpe has married again and is treating his step-daughter, seventeen-year-old Laura (Shelby), in the same rigorous way he had trained Helen, and she too is enmeshed in a secret love affair.

Faith, however, had been kind not only to mothers, but had played "Little Sunshine" to the neighbourhood in general, and had won as a friend Mark Strong (Banks), once a brilliant lawyer, now a derelict.

When Strong learns of the affair, he uses his dormant power to free the girl, and of course his investigations disclose the fact of Faith's parentage and of Thorpe's roguery.

Mary Miles Minter in "Faith" (1916)