Daughter of
Mine(1919)
Director:
Clarence G. Badger
Writers: Hugo
Ballin (screenplay), Hugo Ballin (story)
Stars: Madge
Kennedy, John Bowers, Tully Marshall
Genre: Drama
Time: (5
reels) 50min
Country: USA
Filming
Locations: Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York
City, New York, USA
Production Co:
Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
Survival status:
(unknown)
Current rights
holder: Public domain.
Plot
Rosie Mendelsohn, the daughter of a kindly Jewish tailor in New York's East Side ghetto, ends her romance with struggling author George Howard because of her father's objections to her marriage to a gentile. After George leaves, Rosie attempts to find him by becoming a private secretary to publisher Joseph Rayberg, whom she persuades to publish a contest in which authors would send in endings to part of a manuscript she claims to have found. Rayberg, intent on seducing Rosie, agrees to publish the manuscript (which is a version of George's novel that she had typed earlier, and actually is a humorously idealized story of her own life) only after Rosie agrees to have sex with him when the contest is over. When George, down-and-out, submits the rest of his story, Rayberg locks Rosie in his office, but she escapes into George's arms and they go to her father who relents and blesses their union.
Rosie Mendelsohn, the daughter of a kindly Jewish tailor in New York's East Side ghetto, ends her romance with struggling author George Howard because of her father's objections to her marriage to a gentile. After George leaves, Rosie attempts to find him by becoming a private secretary to publisher Joseph Rayberg, whom she persuades to publish a contest in which authors would send in endings to part of a manuscript she claims to have found. Rayberg, intent on seducing Rosie, agrees to publish the manuscript (which is a version of George's novel that she had typed earlier, and actually is a humorously idealized story of her own life) only after Rosie agrees to have sex with him when the contest is over. When George, down-and-out, submits the rest of his story, Rayberg locks Rosie in his office, but she escapes into George's arms and they go to her father who relents and blesses their union.
