The Ragged Princess (1916)
Comedy-drama | 16 October 1916
Director:
John G. AdolfiWriters:
John W. Kellette, Frederic ChapinProduction Company:
Fox Film Corp.The 9 September 1916 Motion Picture News announced that June Caprice was at work at Fox's Eastern studios (in Fort Lee, NJ) on a film about "a girl's life in an orphanage." At one point the working title was Alicia of the Orphanage.
Irene Lee, head of Fox's costume department and mother of child actresses Jane and Katherine Lee, made her film debut in The Ragged Princess as the orphanage matron, according to the 7 October 1916 Motography.
The Ragged Princess was the third of four films that director John G. Adolfi made with 21-year-old actress June Caprice during the last half of 1916. Caprice generally played much younger characters, and studio press release items gave her age as seventeen. A full-page advertisement for The Ragged Princess in the 21 October 1916 Motion Picture News billed her as "dainty."
The film's most sensational scene, mentioned in several reviews, was June Caprice's nude swim. According to the 20 October 1916 Variety, "This is a series of of scenes in which the heroine, after her escape from the orphanage, comes upon an inviting woodland lake, and stripping off her clothes in the deep thickets, plunges into the water....The scenes are managed with the utmost discretion and cannot give offense to anyone."
Motography listed the release date as 9 October 1916. Several reviews, including ones in Variety and Wid's, declared that four-year-old Jane Lee stole the picture from June Caprice.
The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this film on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films ...
The 9 September 1916 Motion Picture News announced that June Caprice was at work at Fox's Eastern studios (in Fort Lee, NJ) on a film about "a girl's life in an orphanage." At one point the working title was Alicia of the Orphanage.
Irene Lee, head of Fox's costume department and mother of child actresses Jane and Katherine Lee, made her film debut in The Ragged Princess as the orphanage matron, according to the 7 October 1916 Motography.
The Ragged Princess was the third of four films that director John G. Adolfi made with 21-year-old actress June Caprice during the last half of 1916. Caprice generally played much younger characters, and studio press release items gave her age as seventeen. A full-page advertisement for The Ragged Princess in the 21 October 1916 Motion Picture News billed her as "dainty."
The film's most sensational scene, mentioned in several reviews, was June Caprice's nude swim. According to the 20 October 1916 Variety, "This is a series of of scenes in which the heroine, after her escape from the orphanage, comes upon an inviting woodland lake, and stripping off her clothes in the deep thickets, plunges into the water....The scenes are managed with the utmost discretion and cannot give offense to anyone."
Motography listed the release date as 9 October 1916. Several reviews, including ones in Variety and Wid's, declared that four-year-old Jane Lee stole the picture from June Caprice.
The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this film on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021.
Alicia Jones runs away from a brutally run orphanage and dresses in boys' clothes in order to get work on a farm. She falls in love with hired hand Harry Deigan, who knows her secret, but when the farm owner learns that Alicia is a woman, he fires her. Alicia goes back to the city, where wealthy mine owner Thomas Deigan adopts her. Meanwhile, Harry discovers that Thomas is his half brother, and decides to investigate his rich relative. He learns that Thomas took the mine illegally from the rightful owner, who, as a young girl, was placed in an orphanage after her mother's death. When further investigation reveals that Alicia is the owner, Harry decides to confront his half brother with the truth just as Thomas is trying to seduce his new adopted daughter. Harry fights off Thomas, and after seeing that the mine is restored to its real owner, he begins once again the romance that was interrupted when Alicia left the ...
Alicia Jones runs away from a brutally run orphanage and dresses in boys' clothes in order to get work on a farm. She falls in love with hired hand Harry Deigan, who knows her secret, but when the farm owner learns that Alicia is a woman, he fires her. Alicia goes back to the city, where wealthy mine owner Thomas Deigan adopts her. Meanwhile, Harry discovers that Thomas is his half brother, and decides to investigate his rich relative. He learns that Thomas took the mine illegally from the rightful owner, who, as a young girl, was placed in an orphanage after her mother's death. When further investigation reveals that Alicia is the owner, Harry decides to confront his half brother with the truth just as Thomas is trying to seduce his new adopted daughter. Harry fights off Thomas, and after seeing that the mine is restored to its real owner, he begins once again the romance that was interrupted when Alicia left the farm.
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