Forget Me Not (1922 film)
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- Henry Roberts Symonds (story)
- John B. Clymer (adaptation)
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| Directed by | W. S. Van Dyke |
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| Produced by | Louis Burston |
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| Cinematography | Arthur L. Todd |
| Distributed by | Metro Pictures |
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Running time | 6 reels;[1] 6,800 feet[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Forget Me Not, also known as Forget-Me-Not,[3][4] is a 1922 American silent melodrama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and distributed by Metro Pictures. The film starred Bessie Love and Gareth Hughes. It is considered a lost film.[1][5][6]
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Young mother Mary Gordoon is too poor to take care of her infant daughter and leaves the child at an orphanage. The girl, Ann grows up with a crippled leg in the orphanage and has fallen in love with a fellow orphan Jimmy. The mother returns to the orphanage after 15 years to adopt her daughter, but believing her daughter to have been adopted by someone else already, she adopts Jimmy instead.
Ann is eventually adopted by a sidewalk musician, who teaches her to play the violin. When Jimmy marries another girl, Ann plays at his wedding. Many years later, after Jimmy's wife dies, the pair are reunited.[2][7][8][9]
Cast
- Irene Hunt as Mary Gordoon, the mother
- Will Machin as the father
- Bessie Love as Ann, the girl
- Gareth Hughes as Jimmy, the boy
- Otto Lederer as Rodolfo, the musician
- Myrtle Lind as the other girl
- Hal Wilson
- Gertrude Claire
- Sam Allen
- W. E. Lawrence
Production
Director W. S. Van Dyke was unhappy about the casting of Bessie Love in the lead, whom he had not chosen.[10]
In preparation for her role, Love spent two weeks at an orphanage.[11]
Scenes were filmed at the Crooked Tree in Arch Beach, Laguna.[12]
The song "A Million Hearts Are Calling: Forget Me Not" with words and music by Billy Baskette and Ernest Lutz, was composed and published for the film.[13][14]
