Name: Persuasive Peggy
Released: 1917
Cast: Peggy Hyland, William Davidson, Mary Cecil, Gertrude Norman, Charles Sutton

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Nov 1917

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Mayfair Film Corp.

Distribution Company

State Rights

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel Persuasive Peggy by Maravene Thompson (New York, 1916).

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

6 reels

Synopsis

Informed by her husband Ed that they will not be honeymooning at Niagara Falls as promised, but rather at the County Fair, newlywed Peggy decides it is time to assert her independence and steals away to the falls alone, leaving her bewildered husband to follow. After the honeymoon, Ed takes his bride to the home that had been his mother's, and Peggy redecorates the entire house in her husband's absence. Gradually, Ed learns to submit to his wife's modern attitudes until he discovers that her continual visits to the city have not been to the dentist's, as she had said, but to the studio of portrait painter Perry Pipp. Ed angrily confronts Peggy with her deception, forcing her to return home to her parent's house. Later, when Ed learns that Peggy has been posing for a portrait as a birthday surprise, he begs his wife's forgiveness, which she bestows, along with the information that she is pregnant.