Poor Little Peppina
Cast & Crew
Sidney Olcott
Mary Pickford
Eugene O'brien
Antonio Maiori
Ernesto Torti
Edwin Mordant
Film Details
Synopsis
Holding a grudge against Robert Torrens and his wife, who live in Italy, a member of the Mafia kidnaps their infant daughter Lois. Fifteen years later, after having been raised by Italian peasants, Lois, now called Peppina, dresses as a boy and stows away on a ship to America in order to avoid a marriage to a particularly loathsome count. While aboard ship she befriends Hugh Carroll, an assistant district attorney, who arranges first-class transportation for the "boy." In New York, she once again meets her kidnapper, who fled to America after the crime. He forces Peppina to maintain the masculine disguise and to pass counterfeit bills for him, for which she is arrested. Peppina gladly exposes the kidnapper's operation to the authorities, one of whom, Hugh, recognizes her as the "boy" he met on the ship. Then, once the kidnapper has been apprehended, Peppina is reunited with her parents, after which she and Hugh, who has finally discovered that she is female, get married.
Director
Sidney Olcott
Cast
Mary Pickford
Eugene O'brien
Antonio Maiori
Ernesto Torti
Edwin Mordant
Jack Pickford
Edith Shayne
Cesare Gravina
W. T. Carleton
N. Cervi
Mrs. A. Maiori
Francesca Guerra
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
This film was the first production of the Famous Players-Mary Pickford Co., the productions of which the actress retained one-half interest. The film began a special release in several large cities on February 20, 1916, and then went into general release on March 2, 1916. Moving Picture World reports that the film was to be cut from seven reels to five for its general release. The film was also called Little Peppina.
