Mary Pickford Season: FD Cinematheque
Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
Dir: Edwin S Porter
Cast: Mary Pickford, Harold Lockwood, Olive Carey, David Hartford, Louise Dunlap, William Walters, Richard Garrick, Eugene Walter, Jack Henry
80 min
Tess of the Storm Country is a 1914 silent drama, based on the 1909 novelof the same name by Grace Miller White. It starred Mary Pickford, in a role she would reprise eight years later for the 1922 adaptation by John S. Robertson.[1][2]
In 2006, the film was named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress, for its “cultural, aesthetic, or historical significance”.[3]
Cast
- Mary Pickford as Tessibel Skinner
- Harold Lockwood as Frederick Graves
- Olive Carey as Teola Graves
- David Hartford as Daddy Skinner
- Louise Dunlap as Old Mother Moll
- William Walters as Elias Graves
- Richard Garrick as Ben Letts
- Eugene Walter as Ezra Longman
- Jack Henry as Dan Jordan
- H.R. Macy as DeForrest Young, Attorney at Law
- H.L. Griffith as Old Longman
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