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Molly Make-Believe
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by J. Searle Dawley
Cast: Marguerite Clark [Molly Meredith], Mahlon Hamilton [Carl Stanton], Dick Gray [Bobby Meredith], Helen Dahl [Cornelia Bartlett], Gertrude Norman [Grandmother Meredith], J.W. Johnston (Jack W. Johnston) [Sam Rogers], Edwin Mordant [Mr. Wendell], [?] Kate Lester?, Merry the dog
Famous Players Film Company production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Hugh Ford, from the adaptation by Doty Hobart of the novel Molly Make-Believe by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. Cinematography by H. Lyman Broening. Presented by Daniel Frohman. / © 30 March 1916 by Famous Players Film Company [LU7953]. Released [?] 10, 16 or 17? April 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy-Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Molly is an irrepressible young lady who decamps from her grandmother’s farm where she learns of the dire poverty with which they are threatened. Coming to the city, she seeks a position and failing to find one, hits upon the scheme of writing letters to invalids for the purpose of cheering them along the road to recovery. It so happens that her only subscriber is Carl Stanton, in whom she has already taken a violent interest. Carl is totally ignorant of the identity of his little correspondent until matters reach a climax which brings about a revelation of the fact that it is none other than Molly.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 10 June 2024.
References: Spehr-American p. 4 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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