The Forgotten Woman is a 1921 silent American melodrama film directed by Park Frame and starring Pauline Stark.
[1][2][3] A "water waif" named Dixie is adopted by a hateful woman and tricked into marrying the woman's son.
After her new husband is arrested on their wedding night, she ends up falling for another man.
[4] Reportedly, Catherine Carr was visiting the Carolinas when she happened upon a group of Southerners who lived a colorful, bohemian lifestyle along a river.
Her trip inspired her to write the script for The Forgotten Woman.