The Third Ingredient

Synopsis

Hetty Pepper (a discharged department store worker) and Cecilie (a starving miniature-painter) try to make a beef and potato stew in a low-rent New York apartment building. While they have the meat and the potatoes, they desperately need an onion to tie the meal together—which serves as a metaphor for the human connection and grace needed to complete their lives.

Director

Thomas R. Mills

Written by

O. Henry

Studio

Vitagraph Company of America

Released

14 April 1917

Genres

Drama