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The Spreading Dawn
“America's greatest emotional actress -- A famous and nationally-popular author -- A powerful and widely advertised story --- The Goldwin standard of production --- What a combination!”
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The Spreading Dawn (1917) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of The Spreading Dawn (1917) — a movie tagged as Drama and Romance with emotional moods and fast-paced pacing.
Story & themes: Georgina asks permission from her old aunt, Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl, to marry Capt. Nugent before his departure for France. Patricia refuses and, in reply to Georgina's questioning, gives her a diary from her own girlhood to read. The diary unfolds the story of Patricia's marriage to soldier Anthony Vanderpyl. Ret… Our models also surface themes such as ai and war from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for date night. Expect fast-paced storytelling (~50 min).
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Synopsis
Georgina asks permission from her old aunt, Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl, to marry Capt. Nugent before his departure for France. Patricia refuses and, in reply to Georgina's questioning, gives her a diary from her own girlhood to read. The diary unfolds the story of Patricia's marriage to soldier Anthony Vanderpyl. Returning on furlough after the outbreak of the Civil War, Anthony suddenly leaves Patricia to visit Mrs. Le Roy, an old flame, and is killed by her jealous husband. Positive that Anthony had been unfaithful to her, Patricia refuses to open the letter that her husband sent her on the day of his death. Georgina now opens it and discovers that Anthony had gone to Mrs. Le Roy to end the affair that his brother Bentley was having with her. With this revelation, Patricia sanctions her niece's marriage, then dies, joining Anthony in "the spreading dawn".
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- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1917-10-21
- Runtime
- 50m
- TMDB rating
- 0.0
- TMDB ID
- 1537097
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Georgina asks permission from her old aunt, Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl, to marry Capt. Nugent before his departure for France. Patricia refuses and, in reply to Georgina's questioning, gives her a d... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
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The official runtime for The Spreading Dawn is approximately 50 minutes.
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Cast

Jane Cowl
Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl
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Orme Caldara
Anthony Vanderpyl
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Harry Spingler
Bentley Vanderpyl
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Florence Billings
Mrs. Cornelia Le Roy

Henry Stephenson
Mr. LeRoy
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Alice Chapin
Mrs. Mercer
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Helena Blair
Young Lizzie
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Cecil Owen
Colonel Lee

Mabel Ballin
Georgina Vanderpyl

Edmund Lowe
Captain Lewis Nugent
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Edith McAlpin
Old Lizzie
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