The Heart of Sister Ann is a 1915 British silent drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Harold M. Shaw

Harold M. Shaw

-Selected filmography:* The Land Beyond the Sunset * Lawyer Quince * The Firm of Girdlestone * Me and Me Moke * The Last Challenge * Die Rose von Rhodesia * The Pursuit of Pamela...

 and starring Edna Flugrath

Edna Flugrath

Edna Flugrath was the eldest of three sisters who found fame as silent film stars.-Early life:Born in Brooklyn, New York on December 29, 1893, she was the first born of Emil and Mary Dubois Flugrath. Her father, a printer by trade, was the son of Polish-German immigrants and had at one time been...

, Hayford Hobbs

Hayford Hobbs

Hayford Hobbs was a leading British film actor of the silent era and later became a film director. He was born in 1892. He made his first screen appearance in the 1915 film The Third Generation and appeared in his last film High Treason in 1929. The following year he directed his first film, a...

 and Guy Newall

Guy Newall

Guy Newall was a British actor, screenwriter and film director. He was born on the Isle of Wight on 25 May 1885. He began his film career by acting in the 1915 film The Heart of Sister Ann. In 1920 he directed his first film, and went on to direct a further ten including The Chinese Puzzle before...

. An orphaned dancer repays the sister brought her up her by marrying the man she loves - after becoming pregnant by a Russia

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This marked the film debut of Newall who went on to found one of the leading British silent-era film studios.