Fruits of Desire
1916 film by Oscar Eagle
Fruits of Desire is a lost 1916 American silent drama film directed by Oscar Eagle, based on Henry Russell Miller's novel The Ambition of Mark Truitt. The film stars Robert Warwick, Madlaine Traverse, and Alec B. Francis. It was produced by William A. Brady Picture Plays, Inc. and distributed by World Film Company.
Plot
Mark Truitt dreams of becoming the head of the steel industry, and envisions his steel mill looming over his hometown. He kisses his sweetheart goodbye and leaves for Pittsburgh, where he gains employment at a steel mill.
He starts at the most grueling laborer, but quickly rises through the ranks to become a skilled worker. He boards with the shop foreman, and his daughter, Kazia, falls in love with him, but ignores her as he forms his own company in his hometown. He marries his old sweetheart and constructs a massive steel mill, though she becomes a shallow social butterfly and they grow estranged, then divorced.
Living alone in his mansion, he is confronted with how empty his life is, and seeks out Kazia and finds that she still loves him.
“Fruits of Desire” enters the record as 1916 film by Oscar Eagle. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fruits, Desire and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Fruits of Desire” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fruits, Desire and film provides the most credible route into that argument.
Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20804169. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1916.
Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.
- Identifying works and editions
- Tracing reception history
- Finding collection records
The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Fruits of Desire”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Fruits of Desire primary sources, Fruits of Desire archive and Fruits research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Fruits of Desire”?
- How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
- Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Fruits of Desire” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.