False Colors

False Colors is, for 1914 an interesting backstage melodrama. Director Phillips Smalley stars as Lloyd Phillips, an actor that gets a telegram as he steps off the stage that his wife has given birth to a daughter but is sinking fast. Lois Weber wrote the screenplay and stars in two roles as Mrs. Moore and her daughter Flo. After Phillips rushes home to discover his wife has died he no longer wants to see the baby and allows for it to be raised elsewhere. Mrs. Moore a seamstress who had worked in the theater and admired Phillips is confronted by her wheelchair bound and jealous husband when he finds hidden stash of pictures of Phillips among his wife's belongings. The argument proves too much for the sickly husband and he dies. Years pass as the newborn daughter grows into a young woman thinking herself abandoned by her aloof father. Meanwhile a plot is hatched to bilk money from the actor in the guise of care for his out of sight daughter's up bringing. Before it's all over father and daughter will be reunited and seamstress will have won the favor of the man she loved from the wings. Most to the five reels have recently been discovered at the Library Of Congress.