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Sweet Alyssum

Sweet Alyssum

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 15, 1915

Runtime

0h 59m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Sweet Alyssum

Production Companies

Selig Polyscope Company

Director

Colin Campbell

Description

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.