A Little Girl in a Big City

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A Little Girl in a Big City
Directed by Burton L. King
Screenplay by Victoria Moore
Based onA Little Girl in a Big City (play)
by James Kyrle MacCurdy
Produced byGotham Productions
Starring
Cinematography
  • Jack Young
  • C.J. Davis
Distributed by Lumas Film Corporation
Release date
  • July 20, 1925 (1925-07-20)
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

A Little Girl in a Big City is a 1925 silent film drama directed by Burton L. King and starring Gladys Walton. It is based on an off-Broadway play, A Little Girl in a Big City, by James Kyrle MacCurdy. [1] It was Gladys Walton's final film.

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Several copies are preserved in positive and negative formats in the Library of Congress archive. [2] [3] A DVD of the film was released by Grapevine Video in 2012. [4]

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References

  1. "A Little Girl in a Big City". Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute.
  2. Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p..104 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
  3. David Pierce. "A Little Girl in a Big City". American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog. The Library of Congress. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  4. Carl Bennett (ed.). "A Little Girl in a Big City". Silent Era. Retrieved February 4, 2016.