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Barbara Frietchie (1924 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Barbara Frietchie' is a 1924 American silent war drama film about an old woman who helps out soldiers during the American Civil War. It is based on the play of the same name by Clyde Fitch that had starred Julia Marlowe at the turn of the century which in turn was taken from the real-life story of Barbara Fritchie. There were two silent film versions, a 1915 version and 1924 version. The 1915 version, directed by Herbert Blach, starred Mary Miles Minter and Anna Q. Nilsson. The 1924 version, directed by Lambert Hillyer, starred Florence Vidor and Edmund Lowe.[http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=5233 'Barbara Frietchie' as produced on Broadway by Charles Frohman at the Criterion Theatre, October 23, 1899 to January 1900; IBDb.com][http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BarbaraFrietchie1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'Barbara Frietchie'] at silentera.com
Lydia Knott, mother of director Hillyer and a well known character actress in her own right, appears quite prominently in this film as a member of the Frietchie family but for some reason she is uncredited.
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Preservation
Copies of 'Barbara Frietchie' are held by Library and Archives Canada, UCLA Film and Television Archive, and George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3011/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: 'Barbara Frietchie']
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