True Heart Susie (1919)




Lillian Gish - True Heart Susie




Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his knowledge. Eventually he rises to a position of success and sophistication, and Susie realizes that she has through her own efforts raised him to a level where he is inaccessible to her.


Vintage magazines

Photoplay , December 1929
Photoplay , October 1931

Books with substantial mentioning of True Heart Susie

Robert K. Klepper
Silent Films, 1877-1996, A Critical Guide to 646 Movies
Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1999

James Naremore
Acting in the Cinema
Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1988

William K. Everson
Love in the Film
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Books with an entry on True Heart Susie

Robert B. Connelly
The Motion Picture Guide, Silent Film 1910-1936
Chicago, 1986


Year: 1919
Country: United States
 
IMDb: 0010806