The Fear Woman

"The Tragedy of a Woman who Ruined Her Reputation to Save Her Friend — A Drama of the Ghosts of Yesterday."

When her drunken father dies from falling downstairs on the night of her engagement announcement, Helen Winthrop finds a note from him warning that drinking has ruined the family's past four generations. She breaks her engagement to lawyer Robert Craig so that she can test herself as she fears that her children might inherit the habit. After sacrificing her reputation to save that of her adulterous married friend Stella Scarr, Helen goes to a resort hotel where she wins a tennis tournament and flirts with Percy Farwell, the son of social climber Mrs. Honorah Farwell. In order to break up her son's romance with a supposedly disgraced woman, Mrs. Farwell hires Robert Craig.

Cast

Pauline Frederick

Helen Winthrop

Milton Sills

Robert Craig

Lydia Yeamans Titus

Mrs. Honorah Farwell

Walter Hiers

Percy Farwell

Emmett King

Harrison Winthrop

Harry Northrup

Sidney Scarr

Peaches Jackson

Child (uncredited)

Ernest Pasque

Bruce Terhune

Beverly Travers

Stella Scarr