Esmeralda (1915 film)

Esmeralda

Newspaper ad for the film.
Directed by James Kirkwood
Produced by Adolph Zukor
Daniel Frohman
Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Based on Esmeralda 
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Cinematography Emmett A. Williams
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
  • September 6, 1915 (1915-09-06)
Running time
4-5 reels
Country United States
Language Silent film
(English intertitles)

Esmeralda (1915) is a 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.

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." [1]

Preservation status

This film is now considered a lost film.[2][3]

See also

References

  1. "MARY PICKFORD AT COLONIAL TOMORROW IN FILM SUCCESS". The Tacoma Times (Tacoma, Wash.). October 6, 1915. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  2. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988
  3. Esmeralda at silentera.com

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