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The Awakening of Ruth

0.0 59 mins Drama   1917
Perfection Pictures   Edison Studios  
Director(s): Edward H. Griffith

Ruth Hoagland grows up on the Florida Keys with no companion other than her father, a half-witted fisherman who spends most of his time hunting for buried treasure. Vacationing yachtsman Bob Winthrop and Ruth fall in love, but Winthrop returns to New York, and after a year, has forgotten Ruth. After finding two chests in a cave, Ruth locates her father unconscious from a fall. She goes to the mainland for help, but returns with the Reverend Josiah Arbuthnot and Dr. William Strong, to find her father dead. Strong, out of kindness, offers to marry her, but Ruth declines, sure that Winthrop will return.

Casts of The Awakening of Ruth

Shirley Mason

as Ruth Hoagland

George J. Forth

as Bob Winthrop

Joseph Burke

as Reuben Hoagland

William T. Hayes

as Reverend Josiah Arbuthnot

Donald Hall

as Dr. William Strong

Sally Crute

as Fay Harrington

Jessie Stevens

as Mrs. Greer

Edward Elkas

as Joseph Ulrich

David Davies

as Henri Ressori

Carolyn Lee

as Rosaline Fothergill

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