Such a Little Queen (1914)
Comedy-drama | 21 September 1914
This film was based on playwright Channing Pollock's 1909 play of the same name, which was previously turned into a musical, in 1913, by Reginald De Koven, titled Her Little Highness.
According to the 7 Feb 1914 New York Clipper, the Famous Players Film Co. “secured the motion picture rights to all the dramatic successes” of Channing Pollock, including Such a Little Queen. The 1 May 1914 Variety announced that production began in Los Angeles and “will be finished in New York.” Among the California scenes was the opening that displayed “a panoramic view of the Kingdom of Herzegovina in the valley, the great mountains in the background, and a like scene of the Bosnian center,” the 3 Oct 1914 Moving Picture World noted. Apparently the “foreign” landscape was convincing because reviewer Peter Milne, in the 3 Oct 1914 Motion Picture News, claimed that “scenes actually taken in these lands, now in the toils of war, create added color.” He was referring to the involvement of the previously quaint little nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, unknown to most Americans, in the early stages of the war, which only a month earlier had broken out in Europe.
Such a Little Queen opened at the Strand Theatre on Broadway in New York. Realart Pictures remade the film in 1921 (see entry). The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included both titles on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of October 2019.
In the 1918 MPSD, Danny “Kid” Hogan was listed as either an actor, the assistant director, or both on this film. ...
This film was based on playwright Channing Pollock's 1909 play of the same name, which was previously turned into a musical, in 1913, by Reginald De Koven, titled Her Little Highness.
According to the 7 Feb 1914 New York Clipper, the Famous Players Film Co. “secured the motion picture rights to all the dramatic successes” of Channing Pollock, including Such a Little Queen. The 1 May 1914 Variety announced that production began in Los Angeles and “will be finished in New York.” Among the California scenes was the opening that displayed “a panoramic view of the Kingdom of Herzegovina in the valley, the great mountains in the background, and a like scene of the Bosnian center,” the 3 Oct 1914 Moving Picture World noted. Apparently the “foreign” landscape was convincing because reviewer Peter Milne, in the 3 Oct 1914 Motion Picture News, claimed that “scenes actually taken in these lands, now in the toils of war, create added color.” He was referring to the involvement of the previously quaint little nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, unknown to most Americans, in the early stages of the war, which only a month earlier had broken out in Europe.
Such a Little Queen opened at the Strand Theatre on Broadway in New York. Realart Pictures remade the film in 1921 (see entry). The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included both titles on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of October 2019.
In the 1918 MPSD, Danny “Kid” Hogan was listed as either an actor, the assistant director, or both on this film.
Queen Anna Victoria of Herzegovina is exiled from her tiny country and forced to live in poverty in a Harlem flat in New York City, where she comically fumbles with such unfamiliar conveniences as ice boxes and dumbwaiters. Meanwhile, King Stephen of Bosnia, whom she loves but cannot marry because of political reasons, also is exiled to America and lands in a cheap hotel. When both are forced by circumstances to get jobs, Anna goes to work as a translator and Stephen as a clerk for wealthy New York meat packer Adolph Lauman, a self-made man who thinks the royals of Europe are useless. Nonetheless, Lauman soon decides that his daughter should marry Stephen in order to gain a royal title, so that he can then finance the king’s return to the throne. Eventually, Lauman’s daughter convinces her father that she loves Robert Trainor, an American, and that Stephen and Anna should marry each other. Both royals are soon returned to their respective thrones, now free to bind their kingdoms through ...
Queen Anna Victoria of Herzegovina is exiled from her tiny country and forced to live in poverty in a Harlem flat in New York City, where she comically fumbles with such unfamiliar conveniences as ice boxes and dumbwaiters. Meanwhile, King Stephen of Bosnia, whom she loves but cannot marry because of political reasons, also is exiled to America and lands in a cheap hotel. When both are forced by circumstances to get jobs, Anna goes to work as a translator and Stephen as a clerk for wealthy New York meat packer Adolph Lauman, a self-made man who thinks the royals of Europe are useless. Nonetheless, Lauman soon decides that his daughter should marry Stephen in order to gain a royal title, so that he can then finance the king’s return to the throne. Eventually, Lauman’s daughter convinces her father that she loves Robert Trainor, an American, and that Stephen and Anna should marry each other. Both royals are soon returned to their respective thrones, now free to bind their kingdoms through matrimony.
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