Author Archive: Retro

Young woman agrees to help the French against Germany when she finds out her aunt has died and her lover is fighting for the Germans. Written by Jeanie MacPherson and Cecil B. DeMille. Dir. Cecil B. DeMille.

A young woman mistreated by her stepfamily attends a royal ball with the help of her fairy godmother.

Angela maintains a coastal lighthouse in Italy, where she awaits the return of her brothers from the war. She learns they are casualties and takes solace in the arms of an American sailor washed ashore. However, the sailor turns out to be a German spy, and she is torn between her love for him and her realization that he is part of the enemy force that has destroyed her family.

Donald MacTavish, the last chieftain of his clan on an island off the coast of Scotland, dies at sea. This leaves his only daughter, Marget, to assume the responsibilities of leadership. Marget’s burden is partially eased by her blossoming romance with Jamie Campbell. But there is a secret from Jamie’s past that neither of them know about.

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.