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Sunshine and Tempest
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Three reels
Directed by William F. Haddock
Cast: Marion Sunshine [Phoebe], Florence Tempest [Carol], Flavia Arcaro [Nancy], Sidney Mason [Dave Talbert], John Reinhardt [Hal Flager], Henry W. Pemberton [Spivey], Louise Kent [Juanita], James Levering [old man Ashby], Jack Hopkins [Fletch Bird]
Gaumont Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [Rialto]. / Released 6 October 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Sunshine and Tempest were a popular vaudeville act and were real-life sisters from Tennessee. [?] Same as Tempest and Sunshine (1916)?
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Nancy and Juanita, mountain girls of Tennessee, are in love with Fletch Bird, a young mountaineer. He marries Nancy, and twin daughters are born to them. Juanita puts a curse upon the mother and the babies. The curse is fulfilled when, a few months later, Fletch deserts Nancy, and flees the country with Juanita, taking the baby Phoebe with him. Later he abandons Juanita also, and buries himself in the city. There he plunges into a life of dissipation, and is killed in a drunken brawl. His baby girl is adopted by Major Slater. To support herself and Carol, Nancy operates an illicit whiskey still. Later, the girl and her lover, Dave Talbert, manage the still together. Carol is visited by visions of another girl, very like herself, living in an unknown city, and Phoebe, simultaneously, receives intimations of her country sister. Meanwhile, Juanita dies. Bitter to the end, she pledges her son, Spivey, to keep alive her hatred for Nancy. He betrays to Major Slater the location of Nancy’s still. Dave Talbert is caught, but Phoebe intercedes for him, and he is given a light sentence. The city twin’s visions urge her into the mountains, where she takes a country school. She discovers Nancy and Carol. Phoebe falls in love with Spivey, who repents under her influence, and Juanita’s curse is broken. Dave and Carol are reunited. The twin sisters and their sweethearts celebrate a double wedding.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 28 April 2023.
References: Tarbox-Lost p. 237 : Website-IMDb.
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