Poor Little Peppina (1916)
1h 10m
Running Time
March 2, 1916Release Date
Plot.
Holding a grudge against Robert Torrens and his wife, who live in Italy, a member of the Mafia kidnaps their infant daughter Lois. Fifteen years later, after having been raised by Italian peasants, Lois, now called Peppina, dresses as a boy and stows away on a ship to America in order to avoid a marriage to a particularly loathsome count. While aboard ship she befriends Hugh Carroll, an assistant district attorney, who arranges first-class transportation for the "boy." In New York, she once again meets her kidnapper, who fled to America after the crime. He forces Peppina to maintain the masculine disguise and to pass counterfeit bills for him, for which she is arrested. Peppina gladly exposes the kidnapper's operation to the authorities, one of whom, Hugh, recognizes her as the "boy" he met on the ship. Then, once the kidnapper has been apprehended, Peppina is reunited with her parents, after which she and Hugh, who has finally discovered that she is female, get married.
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Cast & Crew.
Mary Pickford
Peppina
Eugene O'Brien
Hugh Carroll
Antonio Maiori
Soldo
Ernest Torti
Pietro
Sidney Olcott
Director
Kate Jordan
Writer
Edwin Mordant
Robert Torrens
William T. Carleton
Detective Chief
Jack Pickford
Beppo
N. Cervi
Dominica
Edith Shayne
Mrs. Torrens
Mrs. A. Maiori
Bianca
Cesare Gravina
Villato
Francesca Guerra
The Stoker
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Poor Little Peppina is a 1916 American silent film directed by Sidney Olcott. The film was in 1916 Mary Pickford's longest film to be made. It was soon surpassed by her later films.