Beatrice Fairfax
About Beatrice Fairfax
Beatrice Fairfax (Grace Darling) and Jimmy Barton (Harry Fox) follow the letters sent to her newspaper column. The fifteen weekly episodes each finish their own story. Among the cases are a taken baby, blackmail, jewel theft, disguise, and counterfeiting. Olive Thomas appears in one episode.
Cast & crew
More about Beatrice Fairfax
Leopold Wharton and Theodore Wharton produced and directed. Basil Dickey is the credited writer on Wikidata. International Film Service distributed it. The first episode was released on 7 August 1916. The Whartons also made The Exploits of Elaine.
Themes
Background
A 1916 Wharton series built on a real advice column, released in the same years the brothers were making cliffhanger serials.
Preservation
Nitrate copies of every episode except the first survived in Marion Davies's collection and later went to the Library of Congress, where they were restored from notes written on the copies. A copy is also on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The column Ask Beatrice Fairfax began in 1898 and is described as the first newspaper advice column of its kind.
- Unlike the Whartons' The Exploits of Elaine, these episodes do not continue a single story.
- Allan Murnane, Warner Oland, and Wesley Ruggles are also in the cast.
- One episode includes the New York Yankees and the Giants at the Polo Grounds.
Scenes
- Beatrice and Jimmy follow a letter into a case that finishes inside the episode.
Influenced by
- The newspaper column Ask Beatrice Fairfax (1898)
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-beatrice-fairfax)
