Peggy Leads the Way (1917)
A small-town girl returns home from schooling in the East to find that her father's small store and indeed the whole town are in danger of being eliminated by a ruthless land developer. The developer has a son who falls for the young girl, and together they try to come up with a plan to save her father's store and the town.
- Date of release
- 1917-10-28
- Runtime
- 52m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Lloyd Ingraham
Casting
- Mary Miles Minter — Peggy Manners
- Andrew Arbuckle — H.E. Manners
- Carl Stockdale — Roland Gardiner
- Allan Forrest — Clyde Gardiner
- Emma Kluge — Mrs. Greenwood
- Margaret Shelby — Maude Greenwood
- George Ahearn — Tim Martin
Interesting facts
Peggy Leads the Way is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring Mary Miles Minter. It also features Andrew Arbuckle, Carl Stockdale, Allan Forrest, Emma Kluge, and Margaret Shelby, who is Minter's older sister. It is one of approximately a dozen of Minter's films to have survived, a copy having first been found at the Dutch Filmmuseum. It was sold to the American Film Institute in 1991 and is held at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
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