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- ↑ Robert Connelly, Jay Robert Nash, Stanley Ralph Ross, Motion Picture Guide Silent Film 1910-1936 (1988), p. 132: "JUST A GIRL** (1916, Brit.) 7 reels Samuelson/Moss bw Owen Nares (Lord Trafford), Daisy Burrell (Esmeralda), J. Hastings Batson (The Duke), Minna Grey (The Duchess), Paul England (The Miner). In another of those British social-class soap operas, an Australian heiress rejects an impoverished lord to marry the miner she really loves. d, Alexander Butler; w, Harry Engholm (based on the novel by Charles Garvice)."
- ↑ "Daisy Burrell: Heroine of Filmland Gives a Few Hints to Would-be Cinema Stars", The Picture Show, Vol. 2, no. 29, Monday 15 November 1919
- ↑ Just a Girl, fact sheet at sfi.se (Swedish Film Institute database), accessed 22 January 2012
