Just a Girl (film)

Just a Girl
Directed by	Alexander Butler
Written by	Charles Garvice (novel) Harry Engholm
Starring	Owen Nares Daisy Burrell
Production company	G.B. Samuelson Productions
Release dates	1916
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Just a Girl is a British silent motion picture of 1916 directed by Alexander Butler and starring Owen Nares, Daisy Burrell and Paul England. A romance, it was adapted by Harry Engholm from Charles Garvice's novel of the same title published in 1895.

Plot

Esmeralda, an Australian heiress played by Daisy Burrell, is courted by Lord Trafford (Owen Nares), an English peer in need of money. However, she refuses him and marries the man she loves, Norman Druce, a humble miner.^[1]

Cast

Owen Nares – Lord Trafford
Daisy Burrell – Esmeralda
J. Hastings Batson – Duke
Minna Grey – Duchess
Paul England – Norman Druce (the miner)

Overseas

The film was distributed in Sweden under the title Australiens vilda ros ('Australia's Wild Rose') and subtitled Esmeralda, lägrets stolthet ('Esmeralda, Pride of the Camp'). The Swedish premiere was at the Odeon, Stockholm, on 3 October 1917.^[2]

References

↑ 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)."
↑ Just a Girl, fact sheet at sfi.se (Swedish Film Institute database), accessed 22 January 2012

External links

Just a Girl at the Internet Movie Database

The films of G. B. Samuelson

(partial list)

The Valley of Fear (1916) Just a Girl (1916) In Another Girl's Shoes (1917) The Way of an Eagle (1918) The Admirable Crichton (1918) The Bridal Chair (1919) Convict 99 (1919) The Winning Goal (1920) The Pride of the Fancy (1920) The Last Rose of Summer (1920) Toni Her Story (1920) The Game of Life (1922) She (1925) Motherland (1927) The Forger (1928) For Valour (1928) Two Little Drummer Boys (1928) The Valley of Ghosts (1928) Over the Sticks (1929) Spanish Eyes (1930) Souls in Pawn (1930) La canción del día (1930) The Wickham Mystery (1931) The Other Woman (1931) Jealousy (1931) Inquest (1931) Threads (1932) The Callbox Mystery (1932) Collision (1932) The Crucifix (1934)

The films of Alexander Butler

The Valley of Fear (1916)
The Girl Who Loves a Soldier (1916)
Just a Girl (1916)
Nursie! Nursie! (1916)
A Pair of Spectacles (1916)
A Fair Impostor (1916)
The Sorrows of Satan (1917)
Little Women (1917)
The Disappearance of the Judge (1919)
The Beetle (1919)
Damaged Goods (1919)
The Odds Against Her (1919)
The Ugly Duckling (1920)
Love in the Wilderness (1920)
David and Jonathan (1920)
Her Story (1920)
The Night Riders (1920)
For Her Father's Sake (1921)
Married Love (1923)
The Knockout (1923)
Should a Doctor Tell? (1923)
A Royal Divorce (1926)

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