Author Archive: Retro

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.

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.