The Squatter's Daughter (1906 Film)
The Squatter's Daughter may refer to: * The Squatter's Daughter (play), a 1907 Australian play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan * The Squatter's Daughter (1910 film), an Australian silent film based on the play * The Squatter's Daughter (1933 film), an Australian film based on the same play * The Squatter's Daughter (Lambert) ''The Squatter's Daughter'' is a 1924 painting by Australian artist George Washington Lambert. It is part of the collection of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. Subject The painting depicts Gwendoline ‘Dee’ Ryrie, the "squatter ...

The Squatter's Daughter (play)
''The Squatter's Daughter or, The Land of the Wattle'' is a 1907 Australian play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan, writing under the combined pseudonym Albert Edmunds. Synopsis The story is set in the 1860s and focuses around the rivalry between two neighbouring sheep stations in rural Australia, "Enderby" and "Waratah". Enderby is owned by a woman, the feisty Violet Enderby, the "squatter's daughter". Waratah is owned by James Harrington, who is Violet's guardian. Violet is in love with Tom Bathurst, an overseer employed on Waratah. While James Harrington is away, the property is being run by his son, the weak Dudley Harrington, who seeks to undermine Bathurst in the eyes of Violet and his father. Having failed in that he gets bushranger Ben Hall and his gang to abduct Violet and hold her for ransom. Matters are complicated by the presence of an English "new chum", Archie McPherson. Original Production The play was originally produced by William Anderson and made its debut a ...
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The Squatter's Daughter (1910 Film)
''The Squatter's Daughter'' is a 1910 Australian silent film based on the popular play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan. Synopsis The plot concerns the rivalry between two neighboring sheep stations, Enderby and Waratah. This version includes the subplot about the bushranger Ben Hall which was not used when the play was adapted again in 1933. Cast * Olive Wilton as Violet Enderby * Bert Bailey as Archie McPherson * Edmund Duggan as Ben Hall * J.H. Nunn as James Harrington * Rutland Beckett as Dudley Harrington * George Cross as Tom Bathurst * George Mackenzie as Nick Harvey * Temple Harrison as Nulla Nulla * Edwin Campbell as Billy * Eugenie Duggan Production Filming took place in June 1910 with cast from the acting company of theatre producer William Anderson at the Kings Theatre Melbourne, many of whom had just appeared in ''The Man from Outback'', also by Bailey and Duggan. Theatre star Olive Wilton played the lead role, with Bailey and Duggan in support. One of her lead ...
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The Squatter's Daughter (1933 Film)
''The Squatter's Daughter'' is a 1933 Australian melodrama directed by Ken G. Hall and starring Jocelyn Howarth. One of the most popular Australian films of the 1930s, it is based on a 1907 play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan which had been previously adapted to the screen in 1910. It has been described as "part of an Australian subgenre, the outdoors colonial melodrama... stories set on outback stations featuring unscrupulous farmers, heroic foremen, upper class twits visiting from England, family secrets and feisty horse-rising heroines. The latter formed the "squatter’s daughter" archetype – the brave, beautiful farm girl who galloped away from bushfires – and meant female starring roles were often stronger in Australian rather than American westerns. " Plot Joan Enderby runs her family sheep station but is about to lose it because she can't afford to buy the lease from the Sherringtons, who run the neighbouring station, Waratah. While Ironbark Sherrington has be ...
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