Underplayed Gems

The Little Clown (1921)

The Little Clown poster
Directed by
Thomas N. Heffron
Genre
comedy film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

A young woman gets involved in comedic situations. The film is a silent comedy based on a play.

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What happens

The Little Clown is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Thomas N. Heffron and starring Mary Miles Minter, adapted by Eugene B. Lewis from a comedy play by Avery Hopwood. It is one of approximately a dozen of Minter's films which still survive today. A copy of the film was found in the Dawson Film Find in 1978 - although other copies survived in various holdings - and a few brief frames from this copy can be seen in 2016 documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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