Beatrice Fairfax (1916)
5h
Running Time
August 7, 1916Release Date
Plot.
Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admirer Jimmy Barton investigate calls for help and escape exotic perils and dangers. Episodes include exciting and fun stories of baby-napping, blackmail, jewel thievery, disguise, counterfeiting, and the long-unseen episode featuring entrancing cult starlet Olive Thomas and the real New York Yankees and Giants playing a game in the Polo Grounds.
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Cast & Crew.
Harry Fox
Jimmy Barton - Reporter
Grace Darling
Beatrice Fairfax
Allan Murnane
Actor
Bruce McRae
The Bookie
Nigel Barrie
Donald Jordan / Bert Kerrigan
F.W. Stewart
Escaped Convict Pete Raven
Leopold Wharton
Director
Theodore Wharton
Director
Basil Dickey
Writer
Beatrice Fairfax
Writer
M.W. Rale
Shara Ali, an Indian Prince
Olive Thomas
Rita Malone (#10 Playball)
Bessie Wharton
Madame Laurette / Mrs. Raven / Mrs. Malone
James Gordon
Christopher McRay / The Prince's bodyguard
Dick Bennard
Conspirator / Waiter
Chief Buck
Police chief
Edgar L. Davenport
Judge Merton
Yumiko Nagahara
Mimosa San
Warner Oland
Detective
Jeannie Parker
Jean Merton
Gus Reulein
Bell hop
Leonard Reulein
Bell hop
Wesley Ruggles
#15 Wristwatches
Little John Sullivan
Billy Dern Schuyler
Harry Robinson
Theodore Tweston
Mrs. Theodore Wharton
Frances White
Robin H. Townley
May Hopkins
Betty Howe
Elaine Hammerstein
Mary Cranston
Frank Honda
Buck Connors
Harry Carr
Leroy Baker
Elsie Baker
Wellington A. Playter
Evelyn Farris
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Beatrice Fairfax is an American silent film serial directed and produced by Leopold Wharton and Theodore Wharton. First released on August 7, 1916, the series consists of 15 weekly episodes and features the character of "Beatrice Fairfax" (Grace Darling). The character was inspired by the popular newspaper advice column Ask Beatrice Fairfax, which had been the world's first column of its kind when launched in 1898.
The weekly film serial was a popular genre of the time, and the films' producers, the Wharton brothers, also made serials such as The Exploits of Elaine. However, Beatrice Fairfax is more accurately a series, since the episodes consist of self-contained stories rather than a linked serial narrative.