Pippa Passes; or, The Song of Conscience (1909)Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by. Director:D.W. Griffith |
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Pippa Passes; or, The Song of Conscience (1909)Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by. Director:D.W. Griffith |
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Gertrude Robinson | ... |
Pippa
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George Nichols | ... |
Pippa's Husband
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Arthur V. Johnson | ... |
Luca
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Marion Leonard | ... |
Ottima
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Owen Moore | ... |
Sibald
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Linda Arvidson | ... |
Greek Model
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Clara T. Bracy |
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Adele DeGarde |
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James Kirkwood | ... |
In Bar
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Anthony O'Sullivan | ... |
In Studio
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| Mary Pickford | ... |
Girl in crowd
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Billy Quirk | ... |
In Studio
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| Mack Sennett | ... |
In Studio
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Henry B. Walthall |
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Pippa awakes and faces the world outside with a song. Unknown to her, the music has a healing effect on all who hear her as she passes by.
Although I am not a Browning fan (in fact the only poems I do like are by Homer, Tennyson and Phyllis Wheatley), I do feel that this short film is significant because it shows signs of Griffith developing as a director. Give him a piece of prose and he can bring alive on the screen.