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The Big Little Person
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard

Cast: Mae Murray [Arathea Manning], Clarissa Selwynne [Mrs. Manning], M. Rodolpho De Valentina (Rudolph Valentino) [Arthur Endicott], Allan Sears [Gerald Staples], Mrs. Bertram Grassby [Marion Beemis]

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Bess Meredyth, from the novel The Big Little Person by Rebecca Lane Hooper Eastman. / © 20 May 1919 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP13732]. Released May 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Romance.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0321.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 26 January 2015.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0321; Edmonds-BigU p. 100; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 33 : with additional information provided by Arne Andersen.