Wilful Peggy
About Wilful Peggy
Peggy, a sharp-tongued poor girl, turns down a wealthy lord. Her mother pushes her into the marriage anyway. At his party she embarrasses herself in front of his friends. His nephew, catching her at the worst moment, talks her into running off with him. She agrees without seeing what he wants. The elopement makes his intentions plain.
Cast & crew
More about Wilful Peggy
D. W. Griffith directed and Frank E. Woods wrote it. Billy Bitzer photographed. Mary Pickford plays Peggy, Henry B. Walthall the lord, and Clara T. Bracy Peggy's mother. Biograph released it in the United States on August 25, 1910.
Themes
Making
Griffith tells the courtship, the bad party, and the nephew's trick inside one Biograph reel, with Bitzer's camera covering the rooms and the flight.
Look
Billy Bitzer shot the short for Biograph, cutting between the mother's pressure, the party, and the nephew's offer.
Preservation
A print survives and is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Pickford had been at Biograph since 1909, working through a run of Griffith one-reelers.
- Walthall, later the Little Colonel in The Birth of a Nation, plays the lord.
- Internet Archive holds a copy as silent-wilful-peggy.
Scenes
- Peggy refuses the lord, and her mother overrides her.
- She misfires among the guests at his party.
- The nephew talks her into leaving with him.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-wilful-peggy)
