Silent Era Information*Progressive Silent Film List*Lost Films*People*Theatres
Taylorology*Articles*Home Video*Books*Search
 
Pandora's Box BD
 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  The Melody of Love (1912)
 
Progressive Silent Film List
A growing source of silent era film information.
This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett.
Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company.
All Rights Reserved.
About This Listing

Report Omissions or Errors
in This Listing

 

The Melody of Love
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Francis X. Bushman [Maurice Eaton], Lily Branscombe [Isobel McIntyre], Frank Dayton [Mr. McIntyre, Isobel’s father], Bryant Washburn [Remsen Olmstead], William Walters [the doctor], Howard Missimer

Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released [?] 3 or 8? February 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Maurice Eaton, a young musical composer, is engaged to marry Isobel McIntyre, a society belle. Eaton has composed a wedding march for their approaching nuptials but on the eve of the marriage he is stricken with a fever, which leaves him blind. The composer now realizes that he can never marry Isobel and tells her that the match must be broken off. Some years later the musician is forgotten and Isobel becomes engaged to a wealthy young society man. On the day of the wedding the church organist is taken ill and the church officials are in a quandary, when one of them remembers of a blind musician who lives in the neighborhood whose services might be obtained. Eaton, ignorant of who is to be wedded, is pressed into service and plays the wedding march he had composed for his own marriage. The bride, unable to place the familiar music, wishes to see the organist. In the semi-darkness of the organ loft she is unable to distinctly see the face of the organist, but Eaton easily recognizes the voice of his former sweetheart. The girl nearly faints when she at last sees who played the wedding march, and turning to her husband, begs to be taken away. At last the church is empty and the blind musician, left alone in his sorrow, bursts into tears.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 10 December 2024.

References: Maturi-Bushman p. 112 : Website-IMDb.

 
Silent Era Home Page  >  PSFL  >  The Melody of Love (1912)
 
Become a Patron of Silent Era

LINKS IN THIS COLUMN
WILL TAKE YOU TO
EXTERNAL WEBSITES

SUPPORT SILENT ERA
USING THESE LINKS
WHEN SHOPPING AT
AMAZON

AmazonUS
AmazonCA
AmazonUK

This is Francis X. Bushman BD

Little Rascals Vol 1 BD

Beloved Rogue BD

Hitchcock: Beginning BD

Cat and the Canary Standard BD

Vitagraph BD