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The Sunbeam (1912)
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.
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Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.
Rating:NR
Genre:Drama, Comedy
Written By:George Hennessy
In Theaters:2/26/1912
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Runtime:15 minutes
Studio:American Mutoscope & Biograph
Cast
D.W. Griffith
Director
Ynez Seabury
Little Sunbeam
Kate Bruce
Sunbeam's Mamma
Claire McDowell
The Spinster
Dell Henderson
The Bachelor
Charles Hill Mailes
The Janitor
Priscilla Dean
In Tenement Hallway
Gladys Egan
One of the Children in Hallway
Edna Foster
Child with Cap in Hallway
W. Chrystie Miller
Old Man In Tenement Hallway
Adolph Lestina
1st Health Inspector
John T. Dillon
A Policeman
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