"Mary Pickford produced and stars in this absorbing melodrama, as Mama Molly, tomboy guardian to a tribe of abused orphans on a "baby farm" in a Gothic southern swamp. "The Devil's share in the world's creation," the swamp is a truly frightening place, with bottomless bog holes that suck up anything thrown into them in a matter of moments. The baby farm's proprietor, Grimes (Gustave von Seyffertitz), is the embodiment of evil, so mean he ..."
"Mary Pickford is the cinema's true Peter Pan. She played spunky waifs and adolescent spitfires well into adulthood and remains best remembered as the crusading orphan raging against ruthless villains and natural disasters with pluck, courage, and hope. Sparrows is quintessential Pickford, the tale of a ragtag collection of orphans made virtual slaves by a gnarled, swamp-dwelling Simon Legree. As the big sister/mother hen of the grimy br ..."
"Charlie Chaplin refined his trademark character the Little Tramp through his short films at Mutual Studios with the help of his two key costars: burly, barrel-chested Eric Campbell, his hulking physical opposite who forever played the bullying nemesis (often behind a positively demonic beard), and sweet-faced Edna Purviance, the alternately demure and plucky innocent he's forever courting, saving, or simply mooning over. In The Count, C ..."
Early Charlie Chaplin(Updated) The Artist as Apprentice at Keystone Studios by James L. Neibaur Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 2011 by Scarecrow Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-8242-3, ISBN: 0-8108-8242-6
Charlie Chaplin(1st Edition) Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers (Paperback)) by Kevin J. Hayes , Charlie Chaplin Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2005 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-57806-702-2, ISBN: 1-57806-702-2