The Ambassador's Daughter
About The Ambassador's Daughter
A paper is stolen from the ambassador’s house. His daughter Helen, played by Miriam Nesbitt, goes after it to keep her father out of a diplomatic disaster and to clear the man she loves. George Lessey is Richard Farnsworth. Robert Brower is the ambassador. Marc MacDermott is Charles Dumont, in league with the conspirators. Charles Ogle and Mary Fuller play those conspirators. Bigelow Cooper is Thomas Crompton.
Cast & crew
More about The Ambassador's Daughter
Charles J. Brabin directed Bannister Merwin’s scenario. General Film released the one-reeler on 21 January 1913. A published timing is 15 minutes; IMDb says 14. The Museum of Modern Art holds a 35mm nitrate positive, a preservation negative, and a preservation positive from the Edison collection.
Themes
Making
Brabin, still at Edison, uses the embassy theft as a one-reel chase for Nesbitt. The World review treats the spies as furniture and the daughter as the picture.
Reviews
The Moving Picture World, 1 February 1913, called it a very good offering and spent its notice on Nesbitt’s daughter and Lessey’s hero rather than on the spies.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
MoMA holds the Edison nitrate and preservation copies. The film is in the public domain in the United States.
Notes
- The Moving Picture World of 1 February 1913 called Ogle and Fuller “not very important conspirators” and Lessey the earnest hero.
- Ogle had already played the Monster in Edison’s 1910 Frankenstein.
- Mary Fuller is a conspirator here, not the daughter.
- An Internet Archive copy is filed as silent-the-ambassadors-daughter.
Scenes
- The document leaves the ambassador’s office.
- Helen takes up the search to save her father and the man she loves.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-the-ambassadors-daughter)
- Museum of Modern Art
