What Would You Do? (1917)

Ruth Walton is a country girl whose ambition leads her to refuse to wed her simple but prosperous suitor. James Martin, and go to the city. She finds, however, that the pathway to fame in the city is a stony one. After losing successive positions, she is entrapped by the evil designing Roger Blakely. Her soul crushed, Ruth returns to her country home and marries "Jim." Just as happiness begins to dawn upon her, though, Blakely turns up, as a friend of her husband. What would you do, if you were Ruth? She asks that question of friends to whom she has been reading the manuscript of her first photoplay, for, instead of being a reality her plight is one she has simply conceived for the plot of her script.