Monday, February 13, 2017

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The Poor Little Rich Girl**        

(US 1917)  

Bankruptcy comes to a wealthy businessman, but he rejects all that to look after his neglected daughter after she nearly dies at the hands of the long-suffering servants.
One of many endearing "little girl" roles that this adult star was able to essay with her petite frame quite successfully, a fairly obvious family melodrama for its time, but winning itself over mainly through Miss Pickford's charm, with some unusual hallucinogenic dream sequences towards the end.

Written by: Frances Marion, from the play by Eleanor Gates.
Producer: Adolph Zukor.
Director: Maurice Tourneur.
Starring: Mary Pickford, Charles Wellesley, Madlaine Traverse, Gladys Faribanks, Frank McGlynn, Herbert Prior.
Photography: Lucien Andriot, John van den Broek.

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