Stella Maris (Silent)

Mary Pickford, "America's Sweetheart", stars in what many consider her best film, playing a dual role as two girls - one a child of privilege, the other a hardened street urchin.
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  • Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: November 27, 2018
  • Originally Released: 1918
  • Label: Alpha Video

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It is a production for which the director, Marshall Neilan, must receive unstinted credit. It is a revelation in exterior locations and interior settings and the titling is exceedingly clever. Full Review
Variety
Mar 26, 2009
Rating: 7/10 -- One of the best showcases for Pickford's talent and considerable screen presence... and one of the most confident melodramas of its era. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Mar 31, 2014
If any there be who think that Mary Pickford is not. a great actress let him go to see Stella Maris and be convinced. Full Review
New York Tribune
Nov 11, 2019
Rating: B- -- This tearjerker melodrama proved to be a big hit commercially for the popular silent star Mary Pickford. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jan 1, 2000
Neilan's imagery is largely theatrical -- he seldom cuts meaningfully within scenes, he treats his locations almost as stage sets, and his idea of subtle lighting is using a narrow bar of light to illuminate the eyes of a murderess. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 1, 2000

Description by OLDIES.com:

Stella Maris and Unity Blake are as different as two women can be. Stella is an invalid who cannot walk, yet has her every need taken care of by a rich family. Her wealthy aunt and uncle go to great lengths to shelter her from the cruelties of the outside world. Unity Blake, on the other hand, has known nothing but cruelty. She lives a life of grubby desperation doing what she must to survive on the streets. Their vastly different worlds collide when a kind-hearted journalist, John Risca, takes interest in both of them. Planning to do a story on her condition, John begins visiting the bedridden Stella every day. At the same time, a chance encounter with Unity leads him to take in the bedraggled young urchin as his ward. Soon, both women are hopelessly in love with their handsome young benefactor, but each believes their love in vain - Stella because of her handicap, Unity because of her poor upbringing. That changes when an operation miraculously enables Stella to walk. Unity decides that it is Stella and John's destiny to be together...but neither of them can imagine the lengths she will go to ensure that fate.

Considered by many to be Mary Pickford's greatest film, Stella Maris stars "America's Sweetheart" at the height of her popularity. Frustrated with "little girl" roles, Pickford became interested in adapting William Locke's novel The Star of the Sea after screenwriter Frances Marion read it to her while she was washing her hair. Worries about Pickford being upstaged by whichever actress was cast as the downtrodden Unity Blake were alleviated when Mary impulsively announced she would be playing both Stella and Unity. Studio head Adolph Zukor was concerned about Mary appearing in the unglamorous role, sans makeup and in tight pigtails, but was pleasantly surprised when Stella Maris became a hit with audiences. After its release, no one ever again doubted Pickford's acting ability. It would be remade in 1925 with Mary Philbin in the dual role.

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