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Arcadian Maid, An (1910)

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An Arcadian Maid (1910)

Director: D W Griffith

Cast: Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, George Nichols, Kate Bruce, Edward Dillon, William J Butler, Henry Lehrman, Anthony O’Sullivan, Vivian Prescott

16 min

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An Arcadian Maid is a 1910 American silent film directed by D.W. Griffith.

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Plot

Mary Pickford plays Priscilla an unemployed maid who finds work at a farm. There she meets a no-good peddler who starts flirting with her and makes her fall in love with him. He runs up a gambling bill and asks her to help him pay his debts or he won’t be able to marry her.[1]

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See also

References

  1. Jump up^ https://archive.org/details/AnArcadianMaid/

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Usurer, The (1910)

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The Usurer (1910)

Director: D W Griffith

Cast: Mary Pickford, George Nichols, Grace Henderson, Mack Sennett, Edward Dillon, Anthony O’Sullivan, Alfred Paget, Kate Bruce, Henry B Walthall, Claire McDowell, Linda Arvidson, Florence Barker, Dorothy West

17 min

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The Usurer is a silent short film made in 1910 directed by David W. Griffith for Biograph Company .

Griffith employs many of his favorite actors of that period: Linda Arvidson (wife of Griffith), George Nichols (in the title role), Jeanie Macpherson , who three years later will start a successful career as a screenwriter and the young Mary Pickford in a young girl invalid role.

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Plot 

A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money’s limitations.

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Production 

The short film was produced by the Biograph Company . It was shot – from 10 to 15 July 1910 – in New York, at the Biograph studios on Fourteenth Street [1] .

Distribution 

Distributed by the Biograph Company , this film was released in US cinemas on August 15, 1910. A copy of the film is kept in the archives of the Library of Congress and Museum of Modern Art . The rights of the film are in the public domain [1] .

In 2002, Kino on Video published an anthology on DVD entitled Griffith Masterworks: Biograph Shorts (1908-1914) lasting 362 minutes which also contained this film in a version of 18 minutes [2] .

Notes 

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Willful Peggy (1910)

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Willful Peggy (1910)

Director: D W Griffith

Cast: Mary Pickford, Clara T Bracy, Henry B Walthall, Kate Bruce, William J  Butler, Edward Dillon, Robert Harron, Henry Lehrman, Mack Sennett

17 min

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Wilful Peggy is a 1910 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith starring Mary Pickford.

Plot

Peggy is a feisty peasant girl who catches the eye of a wealthy lord. Enamored with her, he proposes, but she harshly refuses. Her mother pushes her into the marriage against her will. After their marriage, she makes a fool of herself among the socialites at her husband’s party. In the height of her embarrassment, her husband’s nephew convinces her to run away with him. She innocently agrees, but it soon becomes obvious what the nephew’s true intentions were.

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