The Grim Comedian (1921)

Actress Marie Lamont Phoebe Hunt has been living well due to a string of lovers and has kept her daughter Dorothy Gloria Hope sequestered in a convent far far away from her fast lifestyle But when Dorothy leaves the convent to come live with her mother Marie decides to reform She gives up her fancy apartment and her latest lover Harvey Martin Jack Holt to concentrate on her daughter and her career in that order But Martin has fallen for Dorothy and Dorothy cares for him too even though she is already promised to a young artist Geoffrey Hutchins John Harron