The Love Light

This rarely seen film directed by legendary screenwriter Frances Marion (Stella Maris, The Wind, Camille) provided Mary Pickford with one of her most fully realized adult characters.Angela (Pickford) tends a lighthouse in an Italian fishing village while her brothers are fighting at the front.She discovers a foreign sailor washed ashore, nurses him back to health and falls in love with him.After they marry and have a baby, she discovers that he is a German spy and that her innocent actions have helped cause the death of her brother.Pickford shows her astonishing range: from pure slapstick to moments of pathos to a harrowing descent into madness.

Marion, an Oscar