Rose o' Paradise

Rose o' Paradise is a 1918 silent drama film directed by James Young and starring Bessie Barriscale. It was produced by Paralta Plays and distributed through W. W. Hodkinson Corporation, General Film Company and Pathe-Freres.
This was the first film produced under Bessie Barriscale's contract with Paralta Plays, however the first to be released was Madam Who? (1918).

Cast

Bessie Barriscale - Virginia Singleton
Howard C. Hickman - Lafe Grandoken
David Hartford - Jordon Morse
Norman Kerry - Theodore King
Edythe Chapman - Peg Grandoken
William Delmar - Maudlin Bates
Lucille Young - Molly Merriweather
Arthur Allardt - Thomas Singleton

Plot

Thomas Singleton has a nervous breakdown when his wife dies while giving birth to his daughter, Virginia, who survives the ordeal. He is committed to an asylum. When he recovers, his half-brother does not allow him to leave the asylum. Thomas escapes seventeen years later, as he fears his half-brother will steal the fortune his daughter is to inherit on her eighteenth birthday.

Preservation

A complete print of Rose o' Paradise is held by the Cinémathèque française in Paris.