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Johanna Enlists
(1918) American
B&W : Five reels / 4388 feet
Directed by William D. Taylor (William Desmond Taylor)

Cast: Mary Pickford [Johanna Renssaller], Anne Schaefer [‘Maw’ Renssaller], Fred Huntley [‘Paw’ Renssaller], Monte Blue [Private Vibard], Douglas MacLean [Captain Archie Van Renssaller], Emory Johnson [Lieutenant Frank Le Roy], John Steppling [Major Wappington], Wallace Beery [Colonel Fanner], Wesley Barry [Renssaller boy], June Prentis [Johanna’s twin sister], Jean Prentis [Johanna’s twin sister]

Mary Pickford Film Corporation production; distributed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [Artcraft Pictures]. / Scenario by Frances Marion, from the short story “The Mobilization of Johanna” by Rupert Hughes. Art direction by Wilfred Buckland. Assistant director, Frank Richardson. Cinematography by Charles Rosher. / © 8 September 1918 by Mary Pickford Film Corporation [LP12832]. Released 29 September 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Comedy-Drama: World War I.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2285.

Survival status: Prints exist in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive [16mm preservation reduction positive (struck 1957)]; and in the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education film collection [35mm duplicate negative, 35mm duplicate positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain.

Keywords: Farms - Soldiers - Twins - War: World War I (28 July 1914-11 November 1918)

Listing updated: 19 September 2007.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2285; Brownlow-Parade p. 445; Eyman-Pickford p. 331 : Website-Legacy; Website-Pickford.