The Poor Little Rich Girl
(1917) American
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Maurice Tourneur

Cast: Mary Pickford [Gwendolyn], Madeline Traverse [her mother], Charles Wellesley [her father], Gladys Fairbanks [Jane], Frank McGlynn (Sr.) [plumber], Emile LaCroix [organgrinder], Marcia Harris [Miss Royale], Charles Craig [Thomas], Frank Andrews [Potter], Herbert Prior [doctor], George Gernon [Johnny Blake], Maxine Hicks [Susie May Squoggs], Mildred Dietes [child]

Mary Pickford Film Corporation production; distributed by Artcraft Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Mary Pickford. Scenario by Frances Marion, from the play Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates. Assistant director M.N. Litson. Cinematography by John van der Broek and Lucien Andriot. / Released 5 March 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The production was shot at Pickford’s studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Comedy-Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3493.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive, and in the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education film collection [35mm duplicate negative, 35mm fine-grain duplicate master positive, 35mm duplicate positives].

Keywords: Children - Greed

Listing updated: 28 June 2008.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.3493; Brownlow-Parade pp. 121, 126, 127; Everson-American p. 369; Higashi-Virgins pp. 43, 46, 48, 52; Kerr-Silent pp. 196, 197; Leish-Cinema p. 29; Shipman-Cinema p. 61; Sinyard-Silent p. 75; Slide-Early p. 10; Walker-Garbo p. 13 : Website-Pickford.

Home Video: DVD.