The School Teacher and the Waif

4.8 1912 17 min
Drama

Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shamā€¦

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Director
D.W. Griffith

Cast

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Edwin August The School Teacher
Mary Pickford Nora, the Waif
Charles Hill Mailes Nora's Father
Bert Hendler A Street Fakir
Claire McDowell The Street Fakir's Sweetheart
William A. Carroll The Street Fakir's Assistant
Robert Harron Schoolboy
Kate Bruce
Josephine Crowell
Ella Hall Schoolgirl (unconfirmed)
Grace Henderson A Mother
Mae Marsh Schoolgirl
Frank Opperman At the Bee
Alfred Paget At the Bee
Jack Pickford Extra
Antrim Short Student (uncredited)

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