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The Fairy and the Waif

The Fairy and the Waif

191550m
Drama

Status

Released

Release

1915

Runtime

50m

Storyline

Viola Drayton (Minter) has a fascination for fairies, but real life intervenes when her father, a colonel (W.T. Carleton), is called off to the European War (that's what they called World War I in early 1915). He leaves Viola in the care of the Nevisons (Herbert Wilke and Ina Brookes) and gives them thirty thousand dollars to invest on her behalf. When word arrives that Drayton has been killed in battle, Mr. Nevison takes Viola's money for himself, but he squanders it and his wife has to take in boarders. Viola hates her life at the Nevisons so she runs away and gets a job at a theater playing...a fairy.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
50m
Mar 1, 1915
Languages
No Language
Director
George Irving
George Irving
Marie Hubert Frohman
Production
The Frohman Amusement Corp.
The Frohman Amusement Corp.
Production Countries
United States of America

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