Volume II: Filmography

SHADOWS AND SUNSHINE

Advertisement from Reel Life, December 12, 1914. (F-804-2)

(Princess)

December 18, 1914 (Friday)

Length: 1 reel (918 feet)

Character: Drama

Cast: Marion and Madeline Fairbanks, Nolan Gane

Notes: 1. When Fate Rebelled was originally scheduled for release on this date. That film was subsequently rescheduled to December 25, 1914, then to January 1, 1915, though it was still listed in various trade papers as having been released on one or both of the two earlier scheduled dates. 2. In England Shadows and Sunshine was released under the title form Shadows & Sunshine.

SYNOPSIS, Reel Life, December 12, 1914:

"Tom Sykes adopts a baby girl, one of twins, to solace his wife, who is heartbroken at the loss of her own child. At the same time a wealthy couple by the name of Gale adopt the other twin. A dozen years later finds Madeline, her foster mother dead, the unwilling accomplice of Sykes, who has turned burglar - and Marion, a generous, openhanded child, loved by rich and poor in the community. Sykes enters the Gale home and is shot and killed Mr. Gale in self-defense. Madeline, meanwhile, at Sykes' orders, has been working in Marion's room. The shot wakes Marion, who on seeing Madeline poorly clad, and looking wonderfully like her own photograph, is filled with sympathy for her unhappy double and invites her to share her bed for the night. In the morning, Mrs. Gale, on discovering two Marions in bed, cannot believe her senses - until her husband tells her about their little adopted daughter being a twin. Marion, too, learns that she has found her own twin sister - and, of course, after that the two girls are never separated."

REVIEW, The Bioscope, March 18, 1915:

"Quite a pretty little story of a conventional but pleasant nature. It is acted by the Thanhouser Twins, upon whose extraordinary resemblance to each other the plot is based. Among other episodes, there is an extremely effective revolver fight in the dark."

REVIEW, The Moving Picture World, January 2, 1915:

"A very pretty story, introducing the Fairbanks twins. At the beginning two babies are adopted from a home for foundlings. One goes into a wealthy home and the other falls among thieves. They meet later during a house robbery and learn they are sisters. This has a strong pull on the interest."

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