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The Trick that Failed (1909)
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Drama · 7m
Nellie is a struggling artist whose paintings lie unsold. Billy, a successful painter, loves her, but she tells him that she cannot marry until she sells her paintings. Billy recruits his friends to buy her paintings. At first she is excited by the sudden success, but when she learns the truth, Nellie leaves her sweetheart to accept the proposal of a rival painter.
Cast
Mary Pickford
Arthur V. Johnson
Crew
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
Details
- Release date
- 1909-11-29
- Runtime
- 7m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Biograph Company