Mary Pickford: Rags & Riches Collection

  
Format:  Mary Pickford: Rags & Riches Collection BLU-RAY 
 
 
In the first of her "child roles," a 24-year-old Mary Pickford is "The Poor Little Rich Girl" (1917), a lonely 11-year-old neglected by her wealthy parents until a health scare unites the family. Maurice Tourneur's effective melodrama, highlighted by a surreal nightmare sequence, co-stars Madeline Traverse, Charles Wellesley. Next, to be near her sociologist dad, a spoiled Mary leaves her grandfather's Fifth Avenue mansion and moves to a crime-plagued East Side tenement in "The Hoodlum" (1919), with Ralph Lewis and Kenneth Harlan. Three-disc set also includes "Sparrows." 4 1/4 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: music score; audio commentary; outtakes; interview; bonus short "Ramona" (1910); more. Silent with music score.
 
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