Live musical accompaniment by Gabriel Thibaudeau

Director Frank Borzage and screenwriter Frances Marion make beautiful music out of Fannie Hurst’s famous tale. After years of hard work, Gaston Glass achieves success as a concert violinist, allowing him to move his mother (Vera Gordon) out of the tenements and into a fashionable uptown apartment, and to propose to childhood sweetheart Alma Rubens. But after his arm is badly injured during service in the Great War, all seems lost.

35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.