The Little Boss
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Genre Drama Production Vitagraph Studios | Director David Smith Story by Rida Johnson Young Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language Silent (English intertitles) Release date June 2, 1919 (1919-06-02) (United States) Writer John B. Clymer, Rida Johnson Young Screenplay Rida Johnson Young, John B. Clymer Cast Bessie Love (Peggy Winston), Wallace MacDonald (Clayton Hargis), Otto Lederer (Red ORourke), Harry Russell (Sandy McNab), Jay Morley (Richard Leicester)Similar movies A Yankee Princess (1919), Captain Blood (1924), Little Old New York (1923), Glorious Betsy (1928), Maytime (1937) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Little Boss is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy film directed by David Smith, with a story and screenplay by Rida Johnson Young. It stars Bessie Love and Wallace MacDonald.
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Production
Exterior scenes were filmed at the Little River Redwood Company, an actual lumber camp in Eureka, California. Scenes with log flumes were filmed in Fresno, California.
Plot
Peggy (Love) is the owner of a lumber camp, and she falls for Clayton, a man from the city (McDonald), who comes to the camp. Clayton's sister invites Peggy to come to the city, where she attends school, and becomes a "modern woman." When Peggy returns to the camp, it is revealed that she was never the true owner of the lumber camp, but this does not matter to Clayton, who is love with Peggy.
Cast
Release
On its release, the film was shown with the a Burton Holmes Travelogue and the comedy Taking a Chance in some theaters; The Heart Punch and The Little Widow were shown in others.
Reception
Clyde De Vinna's photography of the redwood forests was highly praised, although the overall reception of the film was negative.
References
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