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The Little American is a american film of genre Drama directed by Cecil B. DeMille released in USA on 12 july 1917 with Mary Pickford
The Little American (1917)
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Add to a movie listThe Little American is a 1917 American silent romantic war drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film stars Mary Pickford (who also served as producer) as an American woman who is in love with both a German and a French soldier during World War I. A print of the film is housed at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and has been released on DVD.
^ Birchard, Robert S. (2009). "25". Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-813-13829-9.
^ The Little American at the silentera.com database
Synopsis
Karl Von Austreim (Jack Holt) lives in America with his German father and American mother. He notices a young lady, Angela More (Mary Pickford). As she is celebrating her birthday on the Fourth of July of 1914, she receives flowers from the French Count Jules De Destin (Raymond Hatton). They are interrupted by Karl, who also gives her a present. They soon battle for Angela's attention. To lose his competition, Count Jules arranges for Karl to be sent to Hamburg, where he will have to join his regiment. Angela is crushed when he announces he has to leave. The next day, Angela reads in the paper the Germans and French are at war and 10,000 Germans have been killed already.Actors
Mary Pickford
(Angela Moore)
Jack Holt
(Karl von Austreim)
Raymond Hatton
(Count Jules de Destin)
Hobart Bosworth
(German Colonel)
Walter Long
(German Captain)
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