The Girl Alaska
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Al Ira Smith
Lottie Kruse
Henry Bolton
C. Edward Cone
Al Ira Smith
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Motherless Mollie McCrea, whose father is in the Yukon, disguises herself as a boy named "Alaska" and hides on a steamer bound for that territory. Discovered, she is made to wash the decks until Phil Hadley, a lad of her age, pays her way, and they go together as pals to look for gold. When Phil becomes sick as they reach the cabin of an old timer, Mollie nurses Phil to health. They work the old timer's mine which proves to be rich, and he dies after telling Mollie that he is her father. Phil plans to go back to his sweetheart, but takes ill again and is again nursed to health by Mollie. After suffering when he finds out that his sweetheart has wed another, Phil happily discovers Molly's true sex when she disrobes to bathe. A minister marries them, and they return to civilization, wealthy from her father's mine.
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Sources conflict concerning the director of this film. A news item states that "Albert L. (sic) Smith...accompanied by his wife and two professional players, Henry Bolton and Lottie Kruse" went to Alaska after Smith, a cameraman who had made previous trips to Alaska, conceived the idea to film on location in Alaska. Exhibitor's Trade Review's review, however, credits only Bolton for producing and directing. According to publicity, this was the first film ever made in Alaska. A letter from Smith in the George Kleine Papers indicates that he and his company of players left Los Angeles to go to Alaska in June 1917, and that scenes were shot in Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Miles Glacier, Childs Glacier, Seward, Anchorage, Fairbanks and other places in Alaska, and in Pasadena, CA. Working titles for the film were Goldie of the Yukon, Maid and the Man, An Alaskan Romance, and The House of Alaska. World Film Corp. secured this film from George Kleine, who purchased it in June 1918 from Smith.
