The Little Dutch Girl
Cast & Crew
Emile Chautard
Vivian Martin
W. J. Gross
Chester Barnett
Dorothy Fairchild
John Bowers
Film Details
Synopsis
An old gardener finds a baby girl in a basket among the lilies of a lake and rears her, calling her " Bebée." After the old man dies, Bebée, now fourteen, continues his work. A few years later, the famous artist Lionel, seeking a model for his painting "Marguerite," finds in Bebée the innocence lacking in his other models. He persuades Bebée to pose and then courts her, thus provoking the jealousy of Jean, a woodsman. Bebée's innocence conquers Lionel's resolve to seduce her, and he leaves after awakening in her a tormenting love. Later, when she reads about Lionel's sickness and poverty, Bebée travels two hundred miles on foot to be with him. Arriving forlornly with holes in her wooden shoes, Bebée sees Lionel cavorting with women in revealing gowns. She flees in horror and jumps into a river, but Jean, who followed, rescues her and takes her home. One day she puts two rosebuds in her wooden shoes with a note saying, "Send them to him," and drowns herself among the lilies.
Director
Emile Chautard
Cast
Vivian Martin
W. J. Gross
Chester Barnett
Dorothy Fairchild
John Bowers
Julia Stuart
Crew
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This film was produced at the Peerless studio.
