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The Unknown Quantity(1919)
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Date: 1919-04-14
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Mary Boyne, who made shirts at four dollars a week, had no place for love in her life - only despair and hate for the son of the man who had plunged her family into deepest distress. Peter Kenwitz loved Mary, but because he was a mathematician and a pessimist by trade, his love was as hopeless as her chance for happiness.
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Vitagraph Company of America
Movie: The Unknown Quantity
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Corinne Griffith
Mary Boyne
Huntley Gordon
Dan Kinsolving
Harry Davenport
Septimus Kinsolving
Jack McLean
Sammy Boyne
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Mary Boyne, who made shirts at four dollars a week, had no place for love in her life - only despair and hate for the son of the man who had plunged her family into deepest distress. Peter Kenwitz loved Mary, but because he was a mathematician and a pessimist by trade, his love was as hopeless as her chance for happiness.
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1919-04-14
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