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Sweet Lavender

Sweet Lavender

192050m
Drama

Status

Released

Release

1920

Runtime

50m

Storyline

Ruth Holt, owner of a boardinghouse in a small college town, lives with her pretty niece "Sweet Lavender," who believes that Ruth is her mother. When boarder Clem Hale, president of the freshman class, is the victim of a prank played by several of his classmates, Lavender rescues him and the two fall in love. Clem's guardian, Horace Weatherburn, becomes concerned about his ward's adoration for a "commoner" and arrives to break up their romance. Ruth, who recognizes Washburn as Lavender's real father and the man who brought her sister grief, strongly opposes the match and sends Lavender off to boarding school. Upon learning that Clem is seriously ill, Lavender runs away to comfort her sweetheart and, in her plight, faints by the side of the road. Weatherburn finds her and is so touched by her concern, that he relents his previous disapproval. Ruth then reveals Lavender's parentage to her father who offers his blessing to the couple.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
50m
Oct 4, 1920
Languages
No Language
Director
Paul Powell
Paul Powell
Production
Realart Pictures Corporation
Realart Pictures Corporation
Production Countries
United States of America

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