The Little Girl Next Door
About The Little Girl Next Door
Helen Randall and Ruth Foster live next door on a fashionable New York street. Helen's parents take Ruth to the park. The children get into a boat alone. It capsizes. Helen's father saves one child and comes back for the other, who has slipped off and drowned. Ruth's father, a widower and a power on Wall Street, ruins Helen's father step by step. Helen then brings the two men to a reconciliation.
Cast & crew
More about The Little Girl Next Door
Lucius Henderson directed. Philip Lonergan wrote the scenario, believed to be his first for Thanhouser. Film Supply Company distributed it. Released November 1, 1912, in one reel. A car-interior scene was shot in a real automobile.
Themes
Background
A Thanhouser one-reeler of November 1912 that turns a child's drowning into a Wall Street feud between the fathers.
Making
Thanhouser used the Fairbanks twins as the neighboring children and staged the park and the boat as the turn of the reel.
Preservation
Prints are held at the Library of Congress and in other collections.
Notes
- Marion Fairbanks plays Helen Randall. Madeline Fairbanks plays Ruth Foster.
- William Garwood plays the husband, Marguerite Snow the wife, and William Russell the other father.
- Moving Picture World for November 2, 1912, described the difficulty of filming the auto interior.
- The Bioscope synopsis of March 20, 1913, matches the boat accident and the Wall Street revenge.
- This is not the Edison one-reeler of a similar title released September 24, 1912, with Marc McDermott and Edna Hammel.
Scenes
- The boat turns over and one father can bring only one child back on the first trip.
- Helen takes the feud between her father and Ruth's father into her own hands.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons
