The Girl Who Stayed at Home

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.

Drama War

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))

Milla Davenport