The Sunbeam

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Overview

Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.

Cast: Ynez Seabury, Kate Bruce, Claire McDowell, Dell Henderson, Charles Hill Mailes, more

Director: D.W. Griffith

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Cast

Ynez Seabury

Little Sunbeam

Kate Bruce

Sunbeam's Mamma

Claire McDowell

The Spinster

Dell Henderson

The Bachelor

Charles Hill Mailes

The Janitor

Priscilla Dean

In Tenement Hallway

Gladys Egan

One of the Children in Hallway

Edna Foster

Child with Cap in Hallway

W. Chrystie Miller

Old Man In Tenement Hallway

Adolph Lestina

1st Health Inspector

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John T. Dillon

A Policeman

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