The Heart of Romance

A Harry F. Millarde film directed by , released in 1918.

A Harry F. Millarde film directed by , released in 1918.

The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Their child, raised in the mandarin’s palace, grows up and escapes to seek her father, now a high-ranking official in the Philippines.

Mary Lynde (Theda Bara) is an innocent girl who has grown up in New York’s Greenwich Village. One of the artists there, Felix Benavente (Sidney Mason), uses her as model when he paints a portrait of the Madonna for a…

After his wife/model has died of starvation with her portrait unfinished, an impoverished artist meets another woman with a striking resemblance to her.

Heading to America after finding themselves destitute following their father’s death, Charles de la Fontaine, the Marquis d’Aubeterre and his sister Helen secures a position in the home of Lathrop, a millionaire thanks to the Countess d’Este. He instantly falls…

A Harry J. Revier film directed by , released in 1918.

A lost film. Leo Peret has a small quiet tobacco shop in Greenwich Village. Edward Livingston, a wealthy young clubman and man-about-town, comes in frequently ostensibly to buy cigarettes but in reality to talk to the daughter Jeannette, and he…

A saloon owner loans her lover the money to buy a house, which he has led her to believe they will live in after they’re married. Instead, he takes the money and buys a saloon in another town.

Upon receiving an inheritance from her late uncle, a woman starts a fortune-telling business designed to make her dreams come true.

The girlfriend of the son of a rich railroad tycoon, attempts to help him escape the clutches of his well-meaning, but over-bearing mother whilst encouraging her own father not to give up on his business, by instigating a staged kidnapping…