Falling Leaves

Falling Leaves — Plot

It's early autumn and Dr. Headley eagerly demonstrates what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Not far from where he is working, the disease seems preparing to soon claim yet another life, a teenage girl named Winifred. Winifred's mother and little sister Trixie are devastated. When Trixie hears the family doctor say of Winifred that "when the last leaf falls, she will have passed away," she interprets the doctor's words literally. Thinking over what she has heard, she determines to do everything possible to save her sister.

• Release date
• March 15, 1912
• Runtime
• 12 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Alice Guy-Blaché

Falling Leaves — Cast

Mace Greenleaf Dr. Earl Headley - A Lung Specialist Blanche Cornwall Mrs. Griswold Thompson - The Mother Marian Swayne Winifred Thompson Magda Foy Little Trixie Thompson Darwin Karr Mr. Griswold Thompson Mary Foy Dr. Headley's Nurse (uncredited)