The Warrens of Virginia
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Cast & Crew
Cecil B. Demille
James Neill
Mabel Van Buren
Blanche Sweet
P. E. Peters
House Peters
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At a ball given at the Virginia plantation of General Warren to honor General Griffin, his comrade in the Mexican War, Griffin's nephew, Ned Burton, who has courted General Warren's daughter Agatha, proposes. Before she can answer, a courier arrives with news of the shelling of Fort Sumter. Ned joins the Union forces as a Lieutenant, while General Warren takes command of his Confederate forces. Four years later, starving Confederate troops wait desperately for a supply train and reinforcements. After Ned is invited to call at the Warren home, General Griffin plants phony orders on him so that they will be found and the train rerouted. The ruse works and the supply train is destroyed. When Ned is about to be shot as a spy, Agatha arranges his escape, but he is too proud to accept her help. When Lee surrenders, Ned is freed. Thinking that he betrayed her, Agatha rebukes Ned, but after General Griffin explains, Agatha accepts Ned's proposal.
Director
Cecil B. Demille
Cast
James Neill
Mabel Van Buren
Blanche Sweet
P. E. Peters
House Peters
Dick La Reno
Sydney Deane
Raymond Hatton
Milton Brown
Dick La Strange
Lucien Littlefield
Gerald Ward
Mildred Harris
Mrs. Lewis Mccord
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A novel by George Cary Eggleston based on William de Mille's play was published in New York in 1908. This story was based on an incident in the life of Colonel H. C. de Mille, the grandfather of William and Cecil. Furniture and heirlooms that were in the de Mille home in Virginia during the Civil War were used in the film. Mary Pickford, Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Keenan and Emma Dunn starred in the Broadway production. Some reviews credit Marguerite House as playing the role of Betty Warren, rather than Mildred Harris. According to modern sources, the scenarist was William C. de Mille, the cameraman was Alvin Wyckoff, the art director was Wilfred Buckland, the film editor was Cecil B. DeMille, and Marjorie Daw played a minor role. Fox Film Corp. made a film based on the same source with the same title in 1924. It was directed by Elmer Clifton, and the scenario was by William C. de Mille. (See AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.6105.)
