The Little Girl Next Door (1916 film)
The Little Girl Next Door is a 1916 film on white slavery produced by W. H. Clune.[1]
Based on the findings of the Illinois Vice Commission, the film features screen appearances by "two congressmen, several Illinois senators, the mayor and chief of police of Chicago, the entire investigation body, the Illinois legislature in a body, and a host of social welfare workers in the Illinois metropolis", according to coverage at the time.[2]
Cast
[edit]The cast includes:[3]
- Warda Howard
- Darwin Karr
- U.S. vice president Thomas R. Marshall
- James Robert Mann, the U.S. congressman who introduced the Mann White Slave act
- Champ Clark, then-speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- Barratt O'Hara, then-lieutenant governor of Illinois
- William Hale Thompson, then-mayor of Chicago
References
[edit]- ^ "Play to Show Conditions in Chicago". Evening Vanguard. September 18, 1916.
- ^ "Remarkable Play Sunday at Potter". The Santa Barbara Daily News and the Independent. October 14, 1916. p. 2.
- ^ "The Theater". The Lexington Herald. September 24, 1916. p. 31.