The Marble Heart (1915) [NR]
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Featuring:
King Baggot, Jane Fearnley, Frank Smith
Written by:
Charles Selby
Directed by:
George Lessey
Release Date:
July 2, 1915
Original Title:
The Marble Heart
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 40
A Wonderful Moral Lesson Depicting the Tortures of a Guilty Conscience TAKEN IN THE TROPICAL WEST INDIES
A modern artist named Raphael dreams that he is the ancient Greek sculptor Phidias, who has been commissioned by the wealthy Georgias to carve a number of statues. When Phidias refuses to give up his work, Diogenes appears and suggests that the sculptor ask the statues themselves whom they would prefer as their owner. After coming to life, the statues abandon the sculptor for the rich man. Awakening, Raphael continues his pursuit of the beautiful Marco, a society woman who has posed for him. Marco ultimately spurns his love in favor of a wealthy viscount, however, leaving Raphael to seek happiness with the humble but loving Marie.
Raphael, a modern sculptor, dreams that in the days of Phydias, about five hundred years before Christ, he lived as Phydias, the sculptor, and was the friend of Diogenes and that he made some beautiful statues on commission for Georgias, the richest man in Asia. His female statues come to life, and disdaining his love, smile upon the wealthy man. Raphael awakens and in real life his of poor love swept aside by great wealth and how misery, ruin and death follows in the train of Marco, a beautiful and merciless coquette, termed "the marble heart" on account of her cold nature.
