The Moth and the Flame

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A bride who discovers during her wedding ceremony that her husband-to-be has fathered a child out of wedlock with another woman.

Released: May 13, 1915

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Stewart Baird

Edward Fletcher

Adele Ray

Marion Walton

Edwin Mordant

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