Author Archive: Retro

Happy-go-lucky orphan girl is adopted by a cold-hearted, bitter aunt and tries to bring gladness to everyone she meets.

Title character is neglected by her fun-loving parents, and left to be raised by a harsh servant. When the servant wants an evening off, she gives the little girl an overdose of sleeping pills, making her dangerously ill.

A young girl, stifling on her father’s backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.

Pickford’s remake of her 1914 film of the same title.

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.