A lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away... Read allA lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away.A lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away.
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- TriviaDirector Edward F. Cline and lead actor Hobart Bosworth were both injured and nearly killed during an accident while filming a storm sequence.
- GoofsWe are shown the spines of three books in Judkins' room, the Holy Bible, a Shakespearian collection and a dictionary. An intertitle tells that he's going to read to the girl from the Bible, but he takes out and opens the middle volume, the Shakespearian one.
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Jeremiah Judkins: The little Cap'n is a power o' help to me! She gets sweeter, an' smarter, an' prettier every day!
Bob Peet: Those busy-bodies in town are at it again - - about Cap'n January. They're sayin' it ain't right for her to be out here - - that she's not took care of proper - - and needs schoolin'.
- ConnectionsVersion of Captain January (1936)
Baby Peggy was as famous in the 1920s as Shirley Temple was in the 1930s. In fact, Shirley Temple remade "Captain January" in 1936. But as quickly as Peggy rose to prominence in the early 1920s, she just as speedily fell in 1925 when her father, Jack Montgomery, got in a fierce argument with Universal's producer Sol Lesser about her salary. After that confrontation, the studio executive abruptly released Peggy from her contract. She was secretly blacklisted from the other Hollywood studios who didn't want to deal with her father's abrasive behavior. Peggy turned to the vaudeville stage, where she drew large crowds. But the family became tired of the arduous traveling circuit and, much to Peggy's delight, she stopped performing in the late 1920s.
With all the money she made in movies and on the stage, Peggy should have enjoyed the fruits of her labors. However, her parents, Baby Peggy's financial handers, were proliferate and careless spenders, draining her hard-earned millions. The 1929 stock market crash placed the family in financial straits where the parents resorted to food coupons from the Motion Picture Relief Fund. Baby Peggy received a high school degree and ran away from home in 1935. Her marriage to bartender Gordon Ayres in 1938 was equally awash in poverty as newspaper columnist Walter Winchell discovered in 1940, finding the pair in a small New York City studio with only doughnuts to eat.
Wanting to get a complete break from Baby Peggy, she adopted the first name Diana and took her artist second husband's last name, Cary, when they married in 1954. She eventually accepted being the former childhood actress, writing several books on her personal experiences and the movie industry. In addition, she became a film historian, giving lectures around the country about the era of silent movies and the personalities during that remarkable time. In February 24, 2020, at the age of 101, she passed away, marking Baby Peggy as the last star of the silent movie generation and closing a unique chapter in cinema.
- springfieldrental
- Jan 9, 2022
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- Runtime1 hour 4 minutes
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