''A Good Little Devil'' is a 1914 silent film starring

Mary Pickford Gladys Marie Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American stage and screen actress and producer with a career that spanned five decades. A pioneer in the US film industry, she co-founde ...

, produced by

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and

Daniel Frohman Daniel Frohman (August 22, 1851 – December 26, 1940) was an American theatrical producer and manager, and an early film producer. Biography Frohman was born to a American Jews, Jewish family in Sandusky, Ohio. His parents were Henry (1826&nda ...

, and distributed on a 'State's Rights' basis. It was Pickford's first feature-length film. She, along with friend

Lillian Gish Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893February 27, 1993) was an American actress, director, and screenwriter. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was called the "First Lady of American Cinema", ...

, appeared in the 1913

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play version of the story prior to the film being made. Much of the cast of the play appeared in the film version. This film is essentially

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, with only one of the five reels surviving, along with a five-second clip in the 1931 film ''

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''.

Cast

The theatre through its stage door (1919) (14762517684)

- Juliet *

Ernest Truex Ernest Truex (September 19, 1889 – June 26, 1973) was an American actor of stage, film, and television. Career Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Truex learned acting at an early age after his father, a doctor, treated actor Edwin Melvin, who ...

- Charles MacLance *William Norris - Mrs. MacMiche *Iva Merlin - Betsy * Wilda Bennett - Queen Mab *Arthur Hill - Rab, the dog *

Edward Connelly Edward Connelly (December 30, 1859 – November 21, 1928) was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. Biography Connelly had a Broadway theater career going back to the Victorian era. His Broadway credits include ''The Wild Du ...

- Old Nick, Sr. *

Etienne Girardot Etienne Girardot (22 February 1856 – 10 November 1939) was a diminutive stage and film actor of Anglo-French parentage born in London, England. Biography The son of French painter Ernest Gustave Girardot, he studied at an art school, but le ...

- Old Nick, Jr. *

Ernest Lawford Ernest E. Lawford (1870–1940) was an English stage and film actor. Biography Lawford made his theatrical debut in 1890 in London at the St James's Theatre in '' As You Like It''. Later he appeared in productions of ''Charley's Aunt'' and ''A Wom ...

- A Poet *

David Belasco David Belasco (July 25, 1853 – May 14, 1931) was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director, and playwright. He was the first writer to adapt the short story ''Madame Butterfly'' for the stage. He launched the theatrical career of m ...

- himself * Paul Kelly - unknown role (unbilled)

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* * 1914 films American silent feature films American films based on plays Films directed by Edwin S. Porter Lost American films 1914 drama films Silent American drama films American black-and-white films 1914 lost films Lost drama films 1910s American films {{1910s-drama-film-stub

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