The Law of Compensation

A young wife, tempted to leave her husband for a song plugger who promises he'll make her a Broadway star, is told her father's life story and of the choices her mother made before her tragic death.

Cast

Norma Talmadge

as Flora Graham / Ruth Graham

Fred Esmelton

as John Graham (as Frederick Esmelton)

Chester Barnett

as Allen Hayes

John Charles

as Frank Trevor

Sally Crute

as Grace Benton

Fred Hearn

as Henry Thurman (as Fred G. Hearn)

Mary Hall

as Mrs. Wayne

Edwin Stanley

as Raymond Wells

Robert Cummings

as Horace Benton

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