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The Girl Who Stayed at Home

Directed by D.W. Griffith

Starring Adolph Lestina, Carol Dempster

D.W. Griffith's Vital Story of Today

Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not reconciled with the Union. Blossom, however, is engaged to a French nobleman. When the war breaks out, Ralph enlists, while his brother Jim, a heartbreaker, is drafted.