Barbara Frietchie (1924 film)

Barbara Frietchie is a 1924 American silent war drama film about an old woman who helps out soldiers during the American Civil War. The film was adapted from the play of the same name by Clyde Fitch that had starred Julia Marlowe at the turn of the century which in turn was taken from the real-life story of Barbara Fritchie. Director Lambert Hillyer and Agnes Christine Johnston wrote the adaptation.^[1]

Directed byLambert Hillyer

Written byLambert Hillyer
Agnes Christine Johnston

Based onBarbara Frietchie
by Clyde Fitch

Produced byRegal Pictures
??and/or W. W. Hodkinson

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Barbara Frietchie
1924 film poster
Directed by	Lambert Hillyer
Written by	Lambert Hillyer Agnes Christine Johnston
Based on	Barbara Frietchie by Clyde Fitch
Produced by	Regal Pictures ??and/or W. W. Hodkinson
Starring	Florence Vidor Edmund Lowe
Cinematography	Henry Sharp (*French, German)
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date	September 26, 1924 (1924-09-26)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

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There were two silent film versions, a 1915 version and 1924 version. The 1915 version, directed by Herbert Blaché, starred Mary Miles Minter and Anna Q. Nilsson. The 1924 version, filmed at Ince Studio now Culver Studios and directed by Hillyer, starred Florence Vidor and Edmund Lowe.^[2][3][1]

Lydia Knott, mother of director Hillyer and a well known character actress in her own right, appears quite prominently in this film as a member of the Frietchie family but for some reason she is uncredited.