The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913)

The Telephone Girl and the Lady

1913

Drama

Synopsis

D.W. Griffith short intercuts two different stories before mixing them together at the end. The film focuses on a telephone girl who leaves work for her lunch break at the same time as "The Lady" goes to a jewelry store to pick up some priceless jewels. When the telephone girl returns to work she gets a phone call from the house of "The Lady" as a robber has broken in and is trying to steal the jewels.

Credits

Director

D.W. Griffith

Cast

Alfred Paget as The Telephone Girl's Sweetheart

Charles Hill Mailes as The Girl's Father

Claire McDowell as The Lady

Gertrude Bambrick as The Maid

Harry Carey as The Thief

John T. Dillon as The Grocery Man

Joseph McDermott as The Jewelry Salesman

Kate Bruce as The Lady's Friend