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Ramona
(1916) United States of America
B&W : [?] 10-14? reels
Directed by Donald Crisp
Cast: Adda Gleason [Ramona Phail, Angus Phail’s daughter], Mabel Van Buren [?] Ramona Phail, in the prologue and/or Ramona Gonzaga, sister of Señora Moreno]?, Baby Anna Lehr (Ann Dvorak) [Ramona Phail, at age 4], Monroe Salisbury [Alessandro Assis, son of Chief Pablo Assis], N. de Brulier (Nigel de Brulier) [Felipe Moreno], Richard Sterling [Angus Phail], Princess Red Wing [Soft Wind, the wife of Angus Phail, Ramona’s mother], Lurline Lyons [?] [Señora Moreno and/or Señorita Hermosa Gonzaga]?, Alice Morton Otten [Starlight, Indian maid of Ramona Ortegna], James Needham (Donald Crisp) [?] [Jim Farrar or Jim Moreno]?, Mrs. H. Davenport (Alice Davenport) [Marda, the Moreno Rancho cook], E. Valencia [Juan Canito, the head shepherd of Moreno Rancho], H.M. Best (Martin Best) [Father Salvierderra, padre of the Santa Barbara Mission], Arthur Tavares [Lieutenant Francis Ortegna, Ramona Gonzaga’s husband], Beatrice Burnham [Margarita, Marda’s daughter], Chief Standing Bear [Pablo Assis, chief of the Temecula Indian village], Thomas Cassidy [the captain of the Cahuilla village], Joe De La Cruz [Ysidro, Alessandro’s cousin at San Pasquale], Rosa Dray [Mrs. Hartsell, the wife of the storekeeper at Temecula], J.L. Franck [Father Gaspara, padre of the San Diego mission], Charles Fuller [the government Indian agent at San Bernardino], Inez Gomez [Carmena, Jose’s wife], Mrs. Gordon [Old Juanita, a bean sheller at the Moreno Rancho], Helen Hayward [Aunt Ri, Jeff Hyer’s wife], Glen Marhoefer [Joshua Hyer, the son of Jeff and Aunt Ri], W. Planett [Jeff Hyer], Dorothy Teters [an Indian girl], Victor Vallejo [Felipe Moreno Jr., as a child], J. Wesley Warner [Jose, one of Alessandro’s shearers, Hubert Whitehead [Señor Gonzaga, Ramona and Hermosa’s father]
Clune Film Producing Company production; distributed on State Rights basis. / Produced by W.H. Clune. From the novel Ramona: A Story by Helen Hunt Jackson. Production supervision by Lloyd Brown. Art direction by John K. Holden (Jack Holden). Assistant director, J. Wesley Warner. Cinematography by Enrico Vallejo (Enrique Juan Vallejo) and Bert Glennon. Music score selected by Lloyd Brown and arranged by Emil Bierman. / © 3 April 1916 by W.H. Clune [LU7994]. Premiered 7 February 1916 at Clune’s Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Released February 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Teters’ film debut. Several different release lengths seems to have been available to exhibitors. The novel was previously filmed as Ramona (1910). The novel was subsequently filmed as Ramona (1928).
Drama: Historical.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3636.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost : Fragmentary print exists in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm positive (reel 5 only)].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Crime: Murder - Death: Murder - Halfcastes - Native Americans - Racial prejudice - Scots - USA: California
Listing updated: 15 January 2025.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.3636 : ClasIm-240 p. 45 : Website-IMDb : with additional information supplied by Scott Simmon.
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