Little Annie Rooney
(1925) American
B&W : Nine reels / 8850 feet
Directed by William Beaudine

Cast: Mary Pickford [Annabelle ‘Annie’ Rooney], William Haines [Joe Kelly], Walter James [Officer Timothy Rooney], Gordon Griffith [Tim Rooney], Carlo Schipa [Tony], Spec O’Donnell [Abie], Hugh Fay [Spider], Vola Vale [Mamie], Joe Butterworth [Mickey], Eugene Jackson [Humidor], Oscar Rudolph [Athos]

The Mary Pickford Company production; distributed by United Artists Corporation. / Produced by Mary Pickford. Scenario by Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton, from a story by Katherine Hennessey. Art direction by John D. Schulze + [Paul Youngblood]. Consulting art director Harry Oliver. Electrical effects by William S. Johnson. Cinematography by Charles Rosher and Hal Mohr. Intertitles by Tom McNamara. Edited by Harold McLernon. / © 8 September 1925 by The Mary Pickford Company [LP21807]. Released 18 October 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.3104.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (American Film Institute/Mary Pickford collection) [35mm color-toned nitrate positive (acquired 1995)] and [16mm reference reduction positive (struck 1956)]; in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive [35mm duplicate negative (incomplete, one reel), 35mm fine-grain positive (incomplete, five reels), 16mm reference reduction positive (struck 1956)]; in the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education film collection [35mm duplicate negative, 35mm fine-grain duplicate master positive, 35mm duplicate positives]; in the Worldview Entertainment film collection (Paul Killiam collection) [?] [35mm? duplicate positive]; and possibly in the Cinémathèque Française film archive [35mm duplicate positive (struck 1965)].

Keywords: African-Americans - Alleys - Animals: Horses - Children - Chinese - Crime: Manslaughter - Criminals - Death - Grief - Hats - Italians - Jews - Neighborhoods - Newspapers - Police: Policemen - Weapons: Guns

Listing updated: 19 September 2007.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F2 n. F2.3104; Bohn-Light p. 94; Everson-American pp. 149, 201, 293; Eyles-Missing p. 70; FilmDaily-1926 p. 45; Higashi-Virgins pp. 43, 46, 48; Kobal-Fifty p. 31; Leish-Cinema p. 55; Sinyard-Silent pp. 74, 75; Sweeney-Coming p. 83; Webb-Hollywood p. 183 : Website-Legacy; Website-Pickford.

Home Video: DVD.