The Spreading Dawn is a 1917 American silent drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn in his first year of producing independently in his own studio and starring Broadway stage star Jane Cowl in her second and final silent film.

The film is lost with a fragment, apparently only part of reel 3, surviving at the Library of Congress.

[1][2] This film was based on a short fiction The Spreading Dawn by Basil King that first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.

The story as told in the journal is how happy Patricia is when she meets Anthony Vanderpyl (Caldara).

Patricia does not understand this sudden departure, and then Mr. LeRoy (Stephenson) tells her that Anthony is with his wife Cornelia (Billings).