True Heart Susie (1919)

 D.W. Griffith's "True Heart Susie"


Coming off the success of "Broken Blossoms" the same year, D.W. Griffith kept the momentum of intimate relationship style dramas. The film is mostly utilised to continue showcasing the remarkable silent acting talents of Lillian Gish, who shines. The story tells of a naive country girl who sells her family cow so that the neighbor farm boy she is in love with can go to college. Once he returns, he hopes of marriage dissipate. Even when is confronted with keeping the secret of infidelity of his new bride does she continue in her true heart. Gish's shifting reactions to the varying situations of her poor country girl is what determined the film's overall success, as Gish had become the top performer of her peers.



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