Peggy

Peggy (1916)

The heroine, Peggy Cameron, is a high-society debutante with a mind of her own. After making a public spectacle of herself once too often, Peggy is bundled off to Scotland, where she is to be looked after by her no-nonsense uncle Andrew Cameron (William H. Thompson). If Peggy's family had hoped that she would straighten up and behave herself in Scotland, they were sorely mistaken. Restored in 2018 by the Academy Film Archive with restoration funding provided by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation.

Date of release
1916-01-02
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Charles Giblyn, Thomas H. Ince

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Los Angeles

Peggy is a 1916 American silent comedy film produced and directed by Thomas Ince and stars Billie Burke in her motion picture debut.

Production

Triangle Film Corporation produced Peggy. Victor L. Schertzinger composed the film's score. In conjunction with the film's release, sheet music of a song, Peggy, was published, the first time a song based on a silent film's incidental music had been written and published. The cover of the sheet music shows Schertzinger as the composer and Ince as the lyricist.

A Wright Model B airplane was used as a wind machine. The airplane was tethered to the ground while its engine and propellers were run.

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