Author Archive: Retro

When her chieftan father dies at sea, a young woman takes command of the Clan. Dir. Maurice Tourneur.

Laundress with an overactive imagination has a crush on guy who forgot his shirt at the laundry.

Pickford in dual role as Stella, a beloved, crippled young girl who has been brought up by adoring relatives and servants, and as Unity, a cruelly treated orphan. Dir. Charles Riesner.

Pickford in dual role as the American orphan who finds out he’s the heir to an English dukedom, and the Little Lord’s mother (!) in this classic rendering. Dir. John Cromwell.

Tough, Irish tomboy Pickford mothers her policeman father while getting into trouble with the ethnically diverse denizens of the ghetto. Dir. Charles Chaplin.

Mary attempts to bring her new sweetheart home for dinner with disasterous results.

A young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.

Young girl is adopted by two stern aunts to relieve her overworked mother, but her girlish ways make the austere aunts send her packing to boarding school. Dir. John Emerson.

Woman cares for nine orphans while trying to fend off starvation and kidnappers. Dir. Victor Saville.