Esmeralda (1915 film)
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Story by Frances Hodgson Burnett Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett Country United States | Director James Kirkwood, Sr. Genre Silent film Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language Silent film
(English intertitles) Release date September 6, 1915 (1915-09-06) Based on Esmeralda
by Frances Hodgson Burnett Writer Frances Hodgson Burnett (story), William Gillette (play), Frances Marion Producers Adolph Zukor, Daniel Frohman Similar movies A Romance of the Redwoods (1917), Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924), The Little American (1917), The Taming of the Shrew (1929), Rosita (1923) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esmeralda (1915) is a silent film starring Mary Pickford, directed by James Kirkwood, and produced by Adolph Zukor and stage impresario Daniel Frohman.
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As with the previous Pickford vehicles Caprice, Mistress Nell and The Dawn of a Tomorrow, Esmeralda is based on a short story and stage play Esmeralda written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and William Gillette and produced in the 1880s. The play was acted by Annie Russell and later Viola Allen both teenagers at the time, who later became well known adult theater actresses.
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Plot
" Esmeralda is a new kind of Mary Pickford picture. The story begins on the farm and swings around to the big city. From the simple and wholesome country girl "Esmeralda" becomes a veteran society leader. One of the big features of "Esmeralda" is the interrupted wedding ceremony in which Little Mary refuses to marry the count. It is a real Pickford scene and worth as much as many entire pictures."
Preservation status
This film is now considered a lost film.
References
Esmeralda (1915 film) WikipediaEsmeralda (1915 film) IMDb