HOODOO ANN (1916) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Rex Ingraham
Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, William H. Brown,
Wilbur Higby, Loyola O'Connor, Mildred Harris
Like Mary Pickford, Mae Marsh was a great silent actress who seemed to get typecast playing girls who were younger than she was and acted even younger than that. Here she plays the title role in a Cinderella story about a servant girl working in an orphanage who survives several near-tragic adventures on her way to finding true love with an aspiring cartoonist played by Robert Harron. A real old-fashioned melodrama that doesn't take itself too seriously, especially during a lengthy film-within-a-film, a comically awful western whose plot anticipates what happens to Marsh's character later on. Marsh and Harron played the struggling young couple in the modern segment of "Intolerance", released the same year. Mildred Harris, who plays the spoiled orphan girl Goldie, was Charlie Chaplin's first wife.
