The Fairy and the Waif 1915 Directed by George Irving , Marie Hubert Frohman
Viola Drayton (Minter) has a fascination for fairies, but real life intervenes when her father, a colonel (W.T. Carleton), is called off to the European War (that's what they called World War I in early 1915). He leaves Viola in the care of the Nevisons (Herbert Wilke and Ina Brookes) and gives them thirty thousand dollars to invest on her behalf. When word arrives that Drayton has been killed in battle, Mr. Nevison takes Viola's money for himself, but he squanders it and his wife has to take in boarders. Viola hates her life at the Nevisons so she runs away and gets a job at a theater playing...a fairy.
Language
English
Gnere
Drama
Production Company
The Frohman Amusement Corp.
Release Date 1 March 1915
50 mins
Cast
Mary Miles Minter
Viola Drayton, the Fairy
Percy Helton
The Waif
Will Archie
Sweetie
William T. Carleton
Maj. Drayton
Hubert Wilke
Mr. Nevinson
Ina Brooks
Mrs. Nevinson
