Just after Bob's fiancée breaks off their engagement, he meets young Mary, whose mother has just died, and the two of them comfort each other.Just after Bob's fiancée breaks off their engagement, he meets young Mary, whose mother has just died, and the two of them comfort each other.Just after Bob's fiancée breaks off their engagement, he meets young Mary, whose mother has just died, and the two of them comfort each other.
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The King and her
It is curious to find someone talking of "not being a fan of Marie Osborne" as though her films were everywhere to be seen and evaluated. This is not absolutely the only film I know of but the only other one if a very abbreviated version of one (Dolly' Vacation) in a series of comedies he made in which, rather remarkably, she co-stars with young black child star Ernest Morrison right at the beginning of his career. It is, needless to say, Baby Marie who is billed but Ernie is quite as important in the film and this, and the other films they made together, represents the only examples I know of a black actor co-starring in a full-length mainstream (ie not a "race" film with only black actors) feature film until.....the 1930s (except...see below).
In that snippet Ernie rather outacts Marie but in this film, rather well directed by Henry King, she does considerably better even if she is again upstaged, this time by a bear. Compared with other child stars, she is not overly winsome - she was herself genuinely a foundling of some kind - and King, who does a good job also as her co-star, keeps the tenor reasonably low-key and natural throughout.
The references to her as "sunshine" and "gold", although they may seem a shade yukky, are actually a sly allusion to George Eliot's Silas Marner which is clearly in part the inspiration for the plot. To appreciate the point visually have a look at Jean Girardin who played the part of little Eppie in the 1922 film of the Eliot novel (there was also a version in 1916),a blond-haired little girl who was known "the most photographed girl in America" because of her appearance in streetcar-ads (and who, at 110, is seemingly still alive). I do not know if the film as such survives but Charles Urban's George Eliot (1922), which appears on the web as "Silas Marner", is actually mostly a long trailer for the film and includes the relevant scene.
For a slight modern fairy-tale with a fashionable anti-drink message tacked on, it does not do too badly. Little Marie would not really have much of a career but Henry King would go on to make some excellent films. The film was a notable success (Baby Marie was often known as Little Mary Sunshine thereafter) and King made two sequels (Shadows and Sunshine and Sunshine and Gold) as well as several other films in which she starred. It was seemingly King who was first responsible for teaming her with a black actor (Leon Pardue) who is "Shadows" in Sunshine and Shadows and co-stars again with her in the 1917 Told at Twilight.
After that King and Baby Marie parted comapny but the director remained fond of her (as well he might, this film ws amjor breakthrugh for King). and he invited her back as an adult to play in the 1934 film Carolina although this did not in any way revive her acting career (she became a costumière).
In that snippet Ernie rather outacts Marie but in this film, rather well directed by Henry King, she does considerably better even if she is again upstaged, this time by a bear. Compared with other child stars, she is not overly winsome - she was herself genuinely a foundling of some kind - and King, who does a good job also as her co-star, keeps the tenor reasonably low-key and natural throughout.
The references to her as "sunshine" and "gold", although they may seem a shade yukky, are actually a sly allusion to George Eliot's Silas Marner which is clearly in part the inspiration for the plot. To appreciate the point visually have a look at Jean Girardin who played the part of little Eppie in the 1922 film of the Eliot novel (there was also a version in 1916),a blond-haired little girl who was known "the most photographed girl in America" because of her appearance in streetcar-ads (and who, at 110, is seemingly still alive). I do not know if the film as such survives but Charles Urban's George Eliot (1922), which appears on the web as "Silas Marner", is actually mostly a long trailer for the film and includes the relevant scene.
For a slight modern fairy-tale with a fashionable anti-drink message tacked on, it does not do too badly. Little Marie would not really have much of a career but Henry King would go on to make some excellent films. The film was a notable success (Baby Marie was often known as Little Mary Sunshine thereafter) and King made two sequels (Shadows and Sunshine and Sunshine and Gold) as well as several other films in which she starred. It was seemingly King who was first responsible for teaming her with a black actor (Leon Pardue) who is "Shadows" in Sunshine and Shadows and co-stars again with her in the 1917 Told at Twilight.
After that King and Baby Marie parted comapny but the director remained fond of her (as well he might, this film ws amjor breakthrugh for King). and he invited her back as an adult to play in the 1934 film Carolina although this did not in any way revive her acting career (she became a costumière).
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- Feb 28, 2018
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