Directed by Maurice Tourneur
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.
La pobre niña rica, Pauvre petite fille riche, Бедната малка богаташка, 可怜的富家小姑娘, Бедная маленькая богачка
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when i say whimsical and fun this film is what i’m talking about
Actor - Mary Pickford
It's safe to say Poor Little Rich Girl was a turning point in Mary Pickford’s career. Although she was very much an established star, this was the film where she’d play a role that would define the next ten years of her career. Mary Pickford at the age of twenty-four played a girl who celebrates her eleventh birthday. Audiences took the performance to their hearts and Pickford would be cast multiple times across the next decade as a young girl until she was into her mid thirties. In 1925 she played the title character in Little Annie Rooney. A 33 year old woman playing a child. The mind simply boggles. Poor Little…
My favorite joke was when she is punished to wear boys clothes only to realize that they're great because they actually have pockets. What a silly, not-at-all-relevant observation from 100 years ago!
“Why do my to-morrows never come?”
Gwendolyn, indolent and ignored. Private schooled, sabotaging playdates, screaming “I hate her” through the keyhole, cross-dressing for a mud fight and stumbling around a midnight dreamland in a drowsy stupor. Tourneur having fun creating surreal manifestations of Gwen’s imaginative idiom interpretations: bears at the stock market, snakes in the grass, a silly ass. Ends up saying something quite profound about the way children hear, and see, the world around them—technically misunderstood, but through that naivety, finding real dark truth.
this movie is kinda insane but it is so beautiful like the dream sequence was stunning aside from the scary donkey thing
absolutely goofy ass comedy and then it unravels in a nightmare spiral. amazing. let mary pickford do age regression idc
I’m realizing that this movie is now over 100 years old, and that it is interesting that it came out the same year as the Bolshevik Revolution.
A subtle Marxism is present in the playful imaginings of Gwendolyn, Pickford’s masterfully portrayed “Poor Little Rich Girl,” who so desperately desires love in her life—a love that could not be possible without the loss of wealth. Her home dwarfs the already short actress, emphasizing silence and cold feelings. The issue of wealth, class, and greed bring near-deadly conflict, all in the name of preserving status in society, leaving young Gwendolyn alone, and desperate for some warm human interaction.
Gwendolyn’s imagination is charming, and provides a space to experiment with cinematic techniques, presenting…
One way to look at this is that Pickford who was 25 at the time, playing 11-year old girl is somewhat disturbing. And then that's that. But then there's another way in which one can celebrate the anarchy and playfulness of her screen-presence and the way she owns the role; this is absolutely a film that works only as a silent film, I think there's no question about that. She completely hits the right notes as she moves around the screen with merriment, soaring like at any time she could fly. Of course the story is absolutely silly but Maurice Tourneur's attention to details and especially Pickford make it completely exhilarating. This silent form gives everything she needs to act…
was not at all expecting this to go from lonely little girl just trying to have fun in life to full on nightmare acid trip but hey!
This was absolutely someone's childhood trauma back in the day
Utterly charming but boy did it take a dark turn. Crazy how well Mary Pickford pulled off playing an 11-year-old.
Ya know what, for a tacky 1917 movie about a rich girl, this was pretty fire.
