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1916 film by Chester M. Franklin

Gretchen the Greenhorn
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Directed by	Chester M. Franklin Sidney A. Franklin
Story by	Bernard McConville
Starring	Dorothy Gish Ralph Lewis Eugene Pallette
Production company	Fine Arts Film Company
Distributed by	Triangle Film Corporation
Release date	September 3, 1916 (1916-09-03)
Running time	5 reels 58 minutes (restored version)
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

Gretchen the Greenhorn is an American silent film released in 1916. The film stars Dorothy Gish as a Dutch girl who emigrates to America to be with her father; they become entangled with a counterfeiting ring. Set in an immigrant section of an American city, the film avoids heavy stereotyping, according to the booklet accompanying the DVD release notes.

Cast

Dorothy Gish as Gretchen Van Houck
Ralph Lewis as Jan Van Houck
Eugene Pallette as Rodgers
Elmo Lincoln as Mystery Ship Captain
Frank Bennett as Pietro
Georgie Stone as Little Nicky Garrity
Kate Bruce as Widow Garrity

Preservation status

The only known complete copy was donated by Galen Biery to the Hollywood Studio Museum in 1991. Fully restored, it was presented at a UCLA film festival in 1993 and is in the Museum of Modern Art and UCLA Film and Television Archives.

Home media

It is included in the 2004 DVD box set More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931.

References

^ "Gretchen the Greenhorn, 1916". San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
^ "Gretchen, the Greenhorn". silentera.com. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
^ "The Galen Biery Collection". Whatcom Museum. Retrieved May 19, 2015.

External links

Gretchen the Greenhorn at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Sidney Franklin
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Films directed by Sidney Franklin

v t e Films directed by Chester M. Franklin
Let Katie Do It (1916) Going Straight (1916) The Little School Ma'am (1916) Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916) A Sister of Six (1916) The Babes in the Woods (1917) Jack and the Beanstalk (1917) Treasure Island (1918) You Never Can Tell (1920) The Case of Becky (1921) A Private Scandal (1921) All Soul's Eve (1921) Nancy from Nowhere (1922) A Game Chicken (1922) The Toll of the Sea (1922) The Song of Love (1923) Where the North Begins (1923) Behind the Curtain (1924) The Silent Accuser (1924) Wild Justice (1925) The Thirteenth Hour (1927) Detectives (1928) The Stoker (1932) A Parisian Romance (1932) Vanity Fair (1932) File 113 (1933) The Iron Master (1933) Sequoia (1934) Tough Guy (1936)

Films directed by Chester M. Franklin

Let Katie Do It (1916)
Going Straight (1916)
The Little School Ma'am (1916)
Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916)
A Sister of Six (1916)
The Babes in the Woods (1917)
Jack and the Beanstalk (1917)
Treasure Island (1918)
You Never Can Tell (1920)
The Case of Becky (1921)
A Private Scandal (1921)
All Soul's Eve (1921)
Nancy from Nowhere (1922)
A Game Chicken (1922)
The Toll of the Sea (1922)
The Song of Love (1923)
Where the North Begins (1923)
Behind the Curtain (1924)
The Silent Accuser (1924)
Wild Justice (1925)
The Thirteenth Hour (1927)
Detectives (1928)
The Stoker (1932)
A Parisian Romance (1932)
Vanity Fair (1932)
File 113 (1933)
The Iron Master (1933)
Sequoia (1934)
Tough Guy (1936)

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