Esmeralda is a 1915 silent film starring Mary Pickford,[1] directed by James Kirkwood,[2] and produced by Adolph Zukor and stage impresario Daniel Frohman.[3]
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| Directed by | James Kirkwood |
| Written by | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Based on | Esmeralda by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Produced by | Adolph Zukor Daniel Frohman |
| Cinematography | Emmett A. Williams |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 4-5 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film (English intertitles) |
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.[4]
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- Mary Pickford - Esmeralda Rogers
- Ida Waterman - Esmeralda's mother
- Fuller Mellish - Esmeralda's father
- Arthur Hoops - Count de Montessin
- William Buckley - William Estabrook
- Charles Waldron - David Hardy
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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."[5]
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References edit
- ^ "Esmeralda*". Mary Pickford Foundation. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
- ^ Pickford, Mary (1915), Esmeralda, retrieved 2019-12-03
- ^ "Daniel Frohman Esmeralda". World News. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
- ^ "Annie Russell and Leslie Allen in Esmerelda | Broadway Photographs". www.broadway.cas.sc.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
- ^ "MARY PICKFORD AT COLONIAL TOMORROW IN FILM SUCCESS". The Tacoma Times. Tacoma, Wash. October 6, 1915. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988
- ^ Esmeralda at silentera.com
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