The Sunbeam

The Sunbeam — Plot

Big-hearted Prue, living in the slums, and Danny O'Maddigan, a reformed crook, want to buy a birthday cake for Prue's 75-year-old grandmother. They live across the hall from Ellen Rutherford, the destitute widow of Steven Rutherford, Jr., who was disinherited by his father, a wealthy candy manufacturer. Prue, who works at the candy factory, gives Ellen the money that was meant for her grandmother's cake so Ellen will be able to care for her son Bobby. Frustrated over the loss of the money, Danny steals the price of a cake from the factory's safe, leaving the safe's door open in his haste to depart.

• Release date
• November 27, 1916
• Runtime
• 50 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Edwin Carewe

The Sunbeam — Cast

Mabel Taliaferro Prue Mason

H

Helen Alexandria Ellen Rutherford Raymond McKee Danny O'Maddigan

G

Gerald Griffin Stephen Rutherford

M

Maggie Breyer Granny Warner Anderson Bobby Rutherford

L

Lillian Shaffner Mrs. Helen Van Tuyl

A

Al Lee Launcelot Van Tuyl