The Fairy and the Waif (1915)
50m
Running Time
March 1, 1915Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Mary Miles Minter
Viola Drayton - The Fairy
Percy Helton
The Waif
Will Archie
Sweetie
William T. Carleton
Maj. Drayton
Marie Hubert Frohman
Director
George Irving
Director
Jacques Montéran
Cinematographer
Hubert Wilke
Mr. Nevinson
Ina Brooks
Mrs. Nevinson
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
The Fairy and the Waif is a 1915 silent drama film directed by Marie Hubert Frohman and George Irving. This was the first feature-length film of actress Mary Miles Minter, who was twelve years old by the time of the release, although she had previously appeared in the 1912 short The Nurse (1912 film) under the name Juliet Shelby.
A copy is preserved at Cinémathèque Française, Paris.