The Girl Who Stayed at Home
D.W. Griffith's Vital Story of Today
Ralph Grey visits France with his shipbuilder father, and falls in love with Blossom, granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not reconciled with the Union. Blossom, however, is engaged to a French nobleman. When war breaks out, Ralph enlists, while his brother Jim, a heartbreaker, is drafted.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Cast
Adolph Lestina
Mr. France
Carol Dempster
Atoline France
Frances Parks
The chum
Richard Barthelmess
Ralph Grey
Robert Harron
James Grey
Syn De Conde
Count de Brissac
George Fawcett
Edward Grey
Kate Bruce
Mrs. Edward Grey
Edward Peil Sr.
Turnverein Terror
Clarine Seymour
Cutie Beautiful
Tully Marshall
Cutie's old friend
David Butler
Johann August Kant
Joseph Scott
Himself (as The Hon. Joseph Scott, Head of the Draft Exemption Board)
E.H. Crowder
Himself (as Provost Marshal Gen. E.H. Crowder)
General March
Himself
Newton Baker
Himself (as Secretary of War Newton Baker) (as Secretary of War Newton Bakr)
