The Age of Desire (1923)
Overview
Janet Loring is a young widow with a young son. She marries millionaire Malcolm Trask, but doesn't tell him about her previous marriage or her son, Ranny. Abandoned to the streets by Janet, Ranny eventually moves in with a bookseller and her granddaughter Margy. As the years go by Janet comes to regret abandoning her son and takes out ads looking for him. Marcio, a vicious blackmailer, sends Ranny to Janet posing as her son, not knowing that the young boy actually is her son. Complications ensue.
Cast
Josef Swickard
Marcio
William Collier Jr.
Ranny - Age 21
Frederick Truesdell
Malcolm Trask (as Frank Truesdell)
Bruce Guerin
Ranny - Age 3
Frankie Lee
Ranny - Age 13
J. Farrell MacDonald
Dan Reagan
Mary Jane Irving
Margy - Age 10
Myrtle Stedman
Janet Loring
Aggie Herring
Ann Reagan
Mary Philbin
Margy - Age 18
Edith Yorke
Gran'ma
Bess Flowers
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