A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Mrs. Thomas W. Whiffen (standing, left) and Mary Miles Minter (left). Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Mary Miles Minter [Barbara, Mrs. Frietchie’s granddaughter], Mrs. Thomas W. Whiffen [Barbara Frietchie], Guy Coombs [Captain Trumbull], Fraunie Fraunholz [Jack Negly], Lewis Sealy [Judge Frietchie], Frederick Heck [Colonel Negly], Wallace Scott [Arthur Frietchie], Anna Q. Nilsson [Sue Negly], Myra Brooks [Mammy Lu], Charles Hartley [Uncle Joe], William A. Morse [Fred Gelwex], Jack Burns [Tom Green]

Popular Plays and Players, Incorporated, production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation [A Metro Wonderplay]. / Scenario by Clarence J. Harris, from a play adaptation by Clyde Fitch of a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. / Released [?] 28 or 29? November 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Whiffen’s film debut. The play was subsequently filmed as Barbara Frietchie (1924).

Drama: Historical.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Thomas Jefferson

Listing updated: 18 November 2022.

References: Tarbox-Lost p. 254 : Website-IMDb.