Sweet Alyssum

Name: Sweet Alyssum
Director: Colin Campbell
Genre: Drama
Released: 1915-11-15
Duration: 59 min
Cast: Tyrone Power Sr., Kathlyn Williams, Edith Johnson, Wheeler Oakman, Harry Lonsdale

“The story of a girl whose mother loved luxury more than honor and the havoc it wrought.”

1915

59m

Drama

Director: Colin Campbell

Writers: Gilson Willets, Charles Major

Overview

The boss of iron worker Roanoke Brooks (Power), is having an affair with his wife (Kathlyn Williams). Eventually she commits suicide and her lover dies in an accident. Roanoke lavishes all his love and attention on his daughter (Edith Johnson). As a young woman she goes to the West where she meets the son of the man who broke up her father's marriage.