Heritage

Heritage — Plot

Kate, whose father, a university graduate, died when she was very young, is adopted by her tenement neighbor, Mrs. McMahon, after her mother, a woman of refinement, dies. At ten, the ill-nourished girl, who has grown up watching her drunken foster father fight with her overworked foster mother, goes to work in a factory after Mr. McMahon loses his job. During the next eight years, Kate's stepbrother, Big Bill McMahon, becomes her friend, sweetheart and protector.

• Release date
• July 29, 1915
• Runtime
• 40 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Robert Z. Leonard

Heritage — Cast

Ella Hall Kate Robert Z. Leonard Big Bill McMahon (as Robert Leonard)

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Mae Talbot Big Bill's mother

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Mark Fenton Big Bill's father (as Marc Fenton) Allan Forrest Guy Melton Anna Lehr Marion Melton (as Anne Lehr) Helen Wright Mrs. Melton