Sunshine Molly
About Sunshine Molly
Sunshine Molly takes a job in an oil field and clashes with a rough employee, Bull Forrest. Lois Weber plays Molly and wrote the script. She and Phillips Smalley directed. Several reels were damaged past repair. Three remain, and two of those are badly damaged.
Cast & crew
More about Sunshine Molly
Paramount released it on 18 March 1915. Adele Farrington, Margaret Edwards, Herbert Standing, and Vera Lewis are in the cast. Surviving reels were issued on DVD and Blu-ray in 2018. No original running time is printed on the English Wikipedia page. The releasing company is Paramount, not a Universal credit in that source.
Themes
Making
Weber and Smalley made an oil-field story with Weber in the lead. What can be screened now is the three damaged reels, not the release print.
Preservation
Three reels survive, two of them badly damaged. Those reels were released on DVD and Blu-ray in 2018. Excerpts are on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Smalley is billed as co-director and as a player. The page does not assign him the name Bull Forrest.
- The catalog note on the damaged reels is the survival statement that travels with the title.
- A Commons file is labeled as excerpts.
- Weber both wrote the part and played it.
Scenes
- Molly starts work in the oil field.
- She and Bull Forrest collide.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Sunshine Molly (1915) excerpts.webm)
