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The High-Born Child and the Beggar

  • October 1913
  • 10mins

  • Drama
  • Directed by

    Edmund Lawrence,

    Starring

    Adelaide Lawrence,

    George Stewart,

    Stephen Purdee,

    Ethel Phillips

    ...

    A short melodrama about the friendship between a rich boy (in a wheelchair) and a poor street girl. When he falls seriously ill, she is not allowed to visit him. After his death, she also dies, on the street. In her hand she holds a flower, which was the last gift that the boy gave to her.