Esmeralda (1915 film)

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]

Esmeralda
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Directed byJames Kirkwood
Written byFrances Hodgson Burnett
Based onEsmeralda
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Produced byAdolph Zukor
Daniel Frohman
CinematographyEmmett A. Williams
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • September 6, 1915 (1915-09-06)
Running time
4-5 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent 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]

Cast

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."[5]

Preservation status

This film is now considered a lost film.[6][7]

See also

References
  1. "Esmeralda*". Mary Pickford Foundation. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  2. Pickford, Mary (1915), Esmeralda, retrieved 2019-12-03
  3. "Daniel Frohman Esmeralda". World News. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  4. "Annie Russell and Leslie Allen in Esmerelda | Broadway Photographs". www.broadway.cas.sc.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  5. "MARY PICKFORD AT COLONIAL TOMORROW IN FILM SUCCESS". The Tacoma Times. Tacoma, Wash. October 6, 1915. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  6. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988
  7. Esmeralda at silentera.com


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