Just a Woman

A silent film adaptation of the stage play, Just a Woman (1916), in which Anna Ward (Charlotte Walker), a Pittsburgh housewife, helps her husband Jim (Lee Baker)—a recovering alcoholic and laborer—rise to director of a steel company. As Jim supports worker’s rights, company officials try to ruin him with alcohol, which precipitates an affair. Jim’s mistress convinces him to sue Anna for divorce on the false charge of infidelity, but Jim eventually confesses his plot to the court and is sentenced to prison. Jim returns seeking Anna’s forgiveness—admitting she's “more than just a woman”—just as their son departs to fight in World War I.

Julius Steger (1870-1959), born in Vienna, Austria, was a vaudeville actor and singer and director of silent films. He died in Vienna. Maitland Merrill was a screenwriter.

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