Esmeralda (1915 film)

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

Esmeralda is a 1915 silent film starring Mary Pickford,[1] directed by James Kirkwood,[2] and produced by Adolph Zukor and stage impresario Daniel Frohman.[3]

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.[4]

Cast

• Mary Pickford - Esmeralda Rogers
• Ida Waterman - Esmeralda's mother
• Fuller Mellish - Esmeralda's father
• Arthur Hoops - Count de Montessin
• William Buckley - William Estabrook
• Charles Waldron - David Hardy

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."[5]

Preservation status

This film is now considered a lost film.[6][7]

See also

• List of lost films

References

1. "Esmeralda*". Mary Pickford Foundation. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
2. Pickford, Mary (1915), Esmeralda, retrieved 2019-12-03
3. "Daniel Frohman Esmeralda". World News. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
4. "Annie Russell and Leslie Allen in Esmerelda | Broadway Photographs". www.broadway.cas.sc.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
5. "MARY PICKFORD AT COLONIAL TOMORROW IN FILM SUCCESS". The Tacoma Times. Tacoma, Wash. October 6, 1915. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
6. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988
7. Esmeralda at silentera.com

External links

• Esmeralda at IMDb