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The Fairy and the Waif

1915
50 min
No Trailer
Drama

Overview

Viola Drayton (Minter) has a fascination for fairies, but real life intervenes when her father, a colonel (W.T. Carleton), is called off to the European War (that's what they called World War I in early 1915). He leaves Viola in the care of the Nevisons (Herbert Wilke and Ina Brookes) and gives them thirty thousand dollars to invest on her behalf. When word arrives that Drayton has been killed in battle, Mr. Nevison takes Viola's money for himself, but he squanders it and his wife has to take in boarders. Viola hates her life at the Nevisons so she runs away and gets a job at a theater playing...a fairy.

Production

The Frohman Amusement Corp.

Cast & Characters

Mary Miles Minter as Viola Drayton, the Fairy

Mary Miles Minter

Viola Drayton, the Fairy

Percy Helton as The Waif

Percy Helton

The Waif

Will Archie as Sweetie

Will Archie

Sweetie

William T. Carleton as Maj. Drayton

William T. Carleton

Maj. Drayton

Hubert Wilke

Mr. Nevinson

Ina Brooks

Mrs. Nevinson

Directors & Crew

M

Marie Hubert Frohman

Writer

M

Marie Hubert Frohman

Director

G

George Irving

Director

Screenshots & Stills

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