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Colleen Moore.
Frame enalargement: Silent Era image collection.
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Little Orphant Annie
Also known as {Little Orphan Annie}
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Colin Campbell
Cast: Colleen Moore [Little Orphant Annie], Thomas Santschi (Tom Santschi) [Dave], Harry Lonsdale [Tomps, Annie’s uncle], Lillian Hayward [Aunt ’Lizabeth], Eugenie Besserer [Mrs. Goode], Jean Stone [Annie, as a child], Doris Baker [a child], Lillian Wade [a child], Ben Alexander [a child], Billy Jacobs [a child], George Hupp [a child], James Whitcomb Riley [himself], Mae Gaston [Annie’s mother], Lafayette McKee (Lafe McKee) [the good squire]
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed on State Rights basis by Pioneer Film Corporation [Pioneer Attractions]. / Produced by William N. Selig. Scenario by Gilson Willets, from the poem “Little Orphant Annie” by James Whitcomb Riley. Photographed (cinematography) by Charles Stumar. Presented by William N. Selig. / © by Pioneer Film Corporation. Released December 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was probably shot in early 1916, and possibly through early 1917; author Riley, who appears in the film, died on 22 July 1916. Moore was likely 17 years old when the film’s production began. The finished film was purchased by Louis B. Mayer’s Pioneer Film Corporation and distributed in 1918 before the film’s sale to World Film Corporation in March 1919. The film was rereleased in the USA in 1926. A digital restoration of the film, utilizing a small number of prints of varying quality, was completed by Eric Grayson in 2016.
Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2546.
Survival status: Prints exist [incomplete 35mm nitrate positive, 16mm reduction positives].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Aunts - Children - Orphans
Listing updated: 23 January 2023.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.2546; Drew-Speaking pp. 165, 282; Limbacher-Feature p. 142; Slide-Aspects p. 39; Weaver-Twenty p. 50.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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