Film · 1917

A Little Princess

Name: A Little Princess
Director: Marshall Neilan
Genre: Drama
Released: 1917-11-05
Rating: 5.2

62 min · Directed by Marshall Neilan · NR

Drama

5.214
ratings

Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.

Cast

Mary Pickford

Sara Crewe

Norman Kerry

Capt. Richard Crewe

Katherine Griffith

Miss Minchin

Anne Schaefer

Amelia Minchin

Zasu Pitts

Becky

W.E. Lawrence

Ali-Baba

Theodore Roberts

Cassim

Gertrude Short

Ermigarde

Gustav von Seyffertitz

Mr. Carrisford

Loretta Blake

Lavinia

George A. McDaniel

Ram Dass

Edythe Chapman

(uncredited)

Josephine Hutchinson

(uncredited)

Joan Marsh

Child (uncredited)

Joe Murphy

Leader of Forty Bandits (uncredited)

Crew

Director: Marshall Neilan
Producer: Mary Pickford
Writer: Frances Marion, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Cinematography: Walter Stradling, Charles Rosher
Production Design: Wilfred Buckland

Details

Studios: Mary Pickford Company
Countries: United States of America
Languages: No Language
Certification: NR
Release: November 5, 1917

Themes

boarding school

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