The Siren's Reign

The Siren's Reign is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Robert G. Vignola and starring Alice Hollister, Harry F. Millarde, Anna Q. Nilsson, Robert Walker and Henry Hallam.

An upright young man marries a siren, a drunken, unfaithful woman, who mothers his child, and then ruins him financially and morally.

[1] Story of a man who disregards the quiet affection of a fine girl to marry a frivolous actress with whom he is infatuated.

Several years later, after the woman has wrecked his life, the husband gives up in despair and shoots himself.

[2] The characters played respectively by Alice Hollister and Anna Nelson are "contrasting roles (that) make for an interesting commentary on the changing role of women in the early 20th century.