Esmeralda (1915)

Directed by

James Kirkwood

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

40 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A country girl grows up poor but good-hearted. She faces challenges that test her character and eventually finds a better life.

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What happens

Esmeralda is a 1915 silent film starring Mary Pickford, directed by James Kirkwood, and produced by Adolph Zukor and stage impresario Daniel Frohman. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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