Poor, beautiful, and ambitious Corinne Griffith (as Marta) leaves common boyfriend Walter McGrail (as Larry Boyle) for snooty sculptor Fred Smith (as Nowland Wells). While mingling with the elite, she becomes the model for Mr. Smith's "Miss Ambition" statue. True to form, Ms. Griffith meets and marries old and wealthy art lover Templar Saxe (as Dudley Kelland). As you might imagine, Griffith discovers money can't buy happiness. Presently, there are no prints circulating for this film, so "Miss Ambition" is still missing. The storyline and ending should be fairly obvious.
Reviewers thought the Vitagraph drama was weak and poorly acted, but admired Griffith's beauty. "She is in a very happy photogenic mood," noted Hazel Simpson Naylor in "Motion Picture Magazine" (February 1919), "There are others, however, not so pleasing; for instance, I can't imagine a more unreal or stilted bit of acting than that of Fred Smith, who wears a sports shirt to denote he is meant to portray a sculptor, unless it were Dudley Kelland, as Templar Saxe, who assumes a leer to denote he is a wealthy clubman." Griffith was voted the magazine's #131 star of 1918.
**** Miss Ambition (11/25/18) Henry Houry ~ Corinne Griffith, Walter McGrail, Betty Blythe, Denton Vane
Reviewers thought the Vitagraph drama was weak and poorly acted, but admired Griffith's beauty. "She is in a very happy photogenic mood," noted Hazel Simpson Naylor in "Motion Picture Magazine" (February 1919), "There are others, however, not so pleasing; for instance, I can't imagine a more unreal or stilted bit of acting than that of Fred Smith, who wears a sports shirt to denote he is meant to portray a sculptor, unless it were Dudley Kelland, as Templar Saxe, who assumes a leer to denote he is a wealthy clubman." Griffith was voted the magazine's #131 star of 1918.
**** Miss Ambition (11/25/18) Henry Houry ~ Corinne Griffith, Walter McGrail, Betty Blythe, Denton Vane
