The Fear Woman

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 Walter Hiers Percy Farwell Emmett King Harrison Winthrop Harry Northrup Sidney Scarr Ernest Pasque Bruce Terhune Beverly Travers Stella Scarr Lydia Yeamans Titus Mrs. Honorah Farwell Peaches Jackson Child (uncredited)

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