David Copperfield
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40 minutes
10/17/1911
Overview
Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser released the three films over the course of three weeks beginning on October 17, 1911, one 1,000 foot reel per week.
Cast List
Flora Foster
as David Copperfield as a Boy
Marie Eline
as Em'ly as a Child
Anna Seer
as Davids Mother
Ed Genung
as David Copperfield as a Man
Florence La Badie
as Em'ly as a Woman
Frank Hall Crane
Alphonse Ethier
Maude Fealy
Mignon Anderson
as Dora Spenlow
William Garwood
Harry Benham
Viola Alberti
as Aunt Betsey Trotwood
Justus D. Barnes
as Ham Peggotty (in part one)
William Russell
as Ham Peggotty (in part two)
James Cruze
as Steerforth