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The Little Clown

1921 50 minutes

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Mary Miles Minter is the title character. Pat (Minter) is a little orphan who has been raised around the circus. Her foster father is Toto the clown (Neely Edwards). Toto hopes to marry Pat until the day the circus comes to a Southern town and she meets handsome Dick Beverley (Jack Mulhall). Beverley falls in love with Pat and takes a job as trick rider just to be near her. Beverley's aristocratic parents (Winter Hall and Helen Dunbar) find out about his new job and insist that he come home. Two of the five reels survive.

Released

3rd March 1921

105 years ago

Runtime

50 minutes

Finishes at 3:31am

Directed by

Thomas N. Heffron

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Written by

Eugene B. Lewis

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