can anybody identify this pickford movie?

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can anybody identify this pickford movie?

PostFri Jul 27, 2012 12:07 am

http://archive.org/details/Yesteryears_ ... wo_Decades

I found this film on the archive site and it looks to star Mary Pickford but I have no idea when this Mary Pickford movie was made, or the title of the film. I'm guessing it was made before 1920
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Re: can anybody identify this pickford movie?

PostFri Jul 27, 2012 12:24 am

It's THE ITALIAN BARBER (1911).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0001709/

Mary Pickford was popular enough in early 1911 to be identified by name in the trade magazine Variety's review of D.W. Griffith's The Italian Barber. Filmed partly on location in Fort Lee, New Jersey, this pleasant little comedy finds the title character falling in love with a cute little newsgirl. But when the "newsie" turns out to be the fickle sort, the barber shifts his attentions to the girl's more stable sister (Pickford). It was curious that Griffith chose to direct this film, since he was usually uncomfortable with comedies and tended to assign such films to his trusted assistant Frank Powell. By the time The Italian Barber was released nationally, Mary Pickford had left Biograph to join the up-and-coming IMP studios. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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