A Little Princess
About A Little Princess
Captain Crewe brings Sara from India to Miss Minchin's school and is then reported dead, the fortune gone. Minchin strips Sara and sets her to work beside Becky. At Christmas a servant of neighbor Carrisford lays out a feast, and Minchin breaks it up. Carrisford learns Sara is his partner's daughter and that the money was not lost. He takes in Sara and Becky, and they give a Christmas party for poor children.
Cast & crew
More about A Little Princess
Marshall Neilan directed. Frances Marion adapted Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel. Mary Pickford produced and plays Sara. Charles Rosher and Walter Stradling photographed it. Artcraft released it on 11 November 1917.
Themes
Making
Pickford changes from the dressed pupil to the servant in the same school sets. Theodore Roberts plays Cassim in the Ali Baba story she tells.
Look
Charles Rosher and Walter Stradling shot the school interiors and the Christmas scenes.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print circulates and is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Mary Pickford was 25 and plays the child Sara Crewe.
- Katherine Griffith is Miss Minchin. ZaSu Pitts is Becky. Norman Kerry is Captain Crewe. Gustav von Seyffertitz is Mr. Carrisford.
- Sara tells the other girls a story of Ali Baba. A monkey from Carrisford's house gets loose and helps him identify her.
- The last image has Sara's parents, as ghosts, approving the Christmas party.
- The film is silent.
Scenes
- Sara acts out Ali Baba for the other pupils.
- Minchin walks in on the Christmas food Carrisford's servant set out.
- Sara and Becky host poor children after the fortune is restored.
Influenced by
- Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel A Little Princess (1905)
Also available
- Internet Archive (TheLittlePrincess1917)
