Human Desire (1919 film)

Human Desire is a 1919 American silent romantic drama film starring Anita Stewart who produced along with Louis B. Mayer. It was distributed by Associated First National.

A copy of Human Desire is preserved in the Library of Congress and the Academy Film Archive.

Plot
As described in a film magazine, the orphan Bernice (Stewart) is raised almost to womanhood by the good sisters in an Italian convent. Worshiping a picture of the Madonna and Child, she is seized by a great desire to have a child she can call her own. Running away to America, where she has been told babies are plentiful, she is taken in by Robert Bruce, an artist whose wife has refused to divorce him, and poses for his projected masterpiece, a Madonna.The cover interfits with the housing""s cover retainer to close the access opening. The cover is releaseable from the interfit to open the access opening. The electrical component subassembly includes electrical components such as a ballast, capacitor, photo control, and photo control receptacle in addition to a mounting plate and a quarter-turn fastener. The mounting plate of the electrical component subassembly unitizes the electrical components and the quarter turn fastener. The mounting plate of the electrical component subassembly cooperates with the seat of the housing to tiltably position the electrical component subassembly in the hollow interior of the base/housing so that the quarter turn fastener aligns with the fastener keeper.
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