True Heart Susie

D.W. Griffith, Artcraft, 1 June 1919, billed in his Short Story Series. Lillian Gish is Susie May Trueheart, who sells her cow so neighbor William Jenkins (Robert Harron) can go to college for the ministry. He comes home and marries Bettina (Clarine Seymour), a Chicago milliner. G.W. Bitzer on the Indiana-looking fields. Gish later called it a rural poem. Shot in the same season as Broken Blossoms and released after it. A BFI print is the usual source. The intertitles take Susie’s side before William does.