The Telephone Girl and the Lady
About The Telephone Girl and the Lady
A telephone girl leaves for lunch at the same time a lady goes to collect jewels. Back at the board, the girl takes a call from the lady's house: a man is inside after the jewels. Griffith cuts between the two until the call joins them. Mae Marsh plays the operator. Claire McDowell plays the lady.
Cast & crew
More about The Telephone Girl and the Lady
D. W. Griffith directed. Anita Loos wrote it. G. W. Bitzer photographed. Biograph released it on March 10, 1913. Alfred Paget, Charles Hill Mailes, Harry Carey, and John T. Dillon are billed. At least a partial print survives.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer covers the switchboard and the house, and Griffith intercuts them.
Preservation
At least a partial print survives.
Notes
- The two stories run separately until the robbery call.
- Loos has the writing credit.
- Carey is in the billed cast, not the lead.
- What remains is a partial print, not a complete reel in every archive.
Scenes
- The operator takes the call while the man is still in the house.
