Mary Pickford
Gwendolyn
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Synopsis
An eleven-year-old girl lives in a mansion with busy parents and servants who treat her wishes as inconveniences. Brief encounters with life outside its rules offer the companionship she lacks at home. After a careless dose of sleeping medicine makes her dangerously ill, familiar people and phrases take unsettling forms in a delirious dream world.
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DirectorsMaurice Tourneur
Inspirations
Frances Marion adapted Eleanor Gates's 1913 play for Maurice Tourneur and Mary Pickford. Filming in Fort Lee, New Jersey, connects the production to an important early American studio centre. The film was added to the National Film Registry in 1991.
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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.
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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.
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- Mary Pickford — Rufus Porter Moody · Public domain
- Madlaine Traverse — Unknown author · Public domain
