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Pollyanna is a american film of genre Drama directed by Alfred L. Werker released in USA on 18 january 1920 with Mary Pickford
Pollyanna (1920)
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Add to a movie listPollyanna is a 1920 American silent melodrama/comedy film starring Mary Pickford, directed by Paul Powell, and based upon Eleanor H. Porter's 1913 novel of the same name. It was Pickford's first motion picture for United Artists. It became a major success and would be regarded as one of Pickford's most defining pictures. The film grossed $1.1 million (approximately $12 950 000 today).
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The film opens in the Ozarks where a distraught Pollyanna (Mary Pickford) is comforting her father the Reverend John Whittier (Wharton James) as he dies. After his death Pollyanna is sent to live on a New England plantation with her Victorian Aunt Polly (Katherine Griffith).Actors
Mary Pickford
(Pollyanna Whittier)
Joan Marsh
(Bit Role (uncredited))
Wharton James
(Rev. John Whittier)
Katherine Griffith
(Aunt Polly Harrington)
Helen Jerome Eddy
(Nancy Thing)
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