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Barbara Frietchie is a 1915 silent drama film directed by Herbert Blaché and starring Mary Miles Minter. It is based upon the 1899 play Barbara Frietchie by Clyde Fitch, which was in turn inspired by the John Greenleaf Whittier poem of the same name. As with many of Minter's movies, the film is thought to be a lost film.




Plot



The film is set in Frederick, Maryland, during the American Civil War. As described in film magazines, young Barbara Frietchie (Minter), just turned eighteen, lives with her grandmother and namesake (Whiffen) in a town occupied by Northern troops. She falls for Captain Trumbull (Coombs), a Union officer, to the disappointment of her father (Sealy), but her grandmother supports the match. When the Confederate forces re-take the town, Captain Trumbull is shot and severely wounded by Barbara's brother (Scott), a Confederate officer. Although he is carried to the Frietchie home and cared for by Barbara and her grandmother, Captain Trumbull dies from his injuries. Both Barbaras are devastated, and wave the stars and stripes from their balcony in defiance of the passing Confederate soldiers. One of these soldiers, Jack Negly (Fraunholz), a suitor whom Barbara had rejected in favour of Captain Trumbull, fires a single shot at the balcony. The bullet hits the younger Barbara, and she is re-united in death with her Union sweetheart.




Cast


Blanche Whiffen (billed as Mrs. Thomas Whiffen) as Barbara Frietchie
Mary Miles Minter as Barbara, Mrs Frietchie's granddaughter
Guy Coombs as Captain Trumbull
Fraunie Fraunholz as Jack Negly
Lewis Sealy as Judge Frietchie
Wallace Scott as Arthur Frietchie
Frederick Heck as Colonel Negly
Anna Q. Nilsson as Sue Negly




Trivia


The December 1915 issue of Photoplay notes an incident from filming wherein Minter accidentally shot her co-star William Morse in the arm – fortunately the wound did not prove to be serious.




See also


List of films and television shows about the American Civil War




References






External links


Barbara Frietchie at IMDb

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