As it is in Life
As It Is In Life is a 1910 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith and produced and distributed by the Biograph Company.
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The story is basically of a father not able to marry another woman after his first wife's death because he can't afford to do so. He has a daughter to care for from his first marriage (when she grows up in the film she is played by Mary Pickford).