The Sunbeam
A RAY OF HOPE IN THE TENEMENTS OF AN AMERICAN CITY
1912 · 15m · Not Rated
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
D.W. Griffith
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The Sunbeam
Overview
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.
Director and cast
- D.W. Griffith Director
- Ynez Seabury as Sunbeam
- Kate Bruce as Sunbeam's Mamma
- Claire McDowell as Spinster
- Dell Henderson as Bachelor
- Charles Hill Mailes as The Janitor
- Priscilla Dean as In Tenement Hallway
- Gladys Egan as One of the Children in Hallway
- Edna Foster Cast
- W. Chrystie Miller Cast
- Adolph Lestina Cast
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