As It Is in Life (1910 Silent Short film)

As It Is In Life is a 1910 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith and produced and distributed by the Biograph Company. Mary Pickford appears in the film.

The film is preserved from Library of Congress paper prints.

Plot
The film starts out with an intertitle stating, ‘The Mother is Gone’. The father, named George Forrester, works at a pigeon farm. The daughter is very lonely when her dad leaves for work, so George brings his daughter to his work at the farm. George meets an old sweetheart, and they rekindle.

Forrester lets the woman go for his daughter, because he can’t support a wife and child. Years pass and the daughter is all grown up. She tells her dad that she will never leave him. Forrester and his daughter go for a walk along the beach and the farm where he works. A young man catches the eye of the daughter. Forrester tells his daughter that she must choose between him and the young man.

She ends up choosing the young man and they get married. George is bitter and doesn’t go to the wedding or visit the couple. The daughter and the young man have a child and she bring it to her father in hopes he will notice. The father is delighted to see the child and he and his daughter reunite.

Cast
George Nichols - George Forrester
Gladys Egan - George Forrester's Daughter as a young girl
Mary Pickford - George Forrester's Daughter as a young woman
Marion Leonard - George Forrester's Sweetheart
Charles West - George Forrester's Son-in-Law
other cast

Kate Bruce - The Maid
William J. Butler -
W. Chrystie Miller - Man
Anthony O'Sullivan - Farm Worker
Frank Opperman - Companion of Daughter's Husband
Mack Sennett - Owner of a Pigeon Farm (unconfirmed)

Production
As It Is in Life production took place on February 22, 1910, and it was filmed at a pigeon farm in Edendale, CA which was the same place another Griffith film, A Rich Revenge was filmed at.