Biography of Sydney Newton FOLKER
[Ref. Q.5]
Title : | The Girl Who Loves a Soldier |
Producer : | G B Samuelson Productions |
Director : | Alexander Butler |
Studios : | Worton Hall, Isleworth |
Released : | September 1916 |
Distributor : | Moss Films |
Cast : | Vesta Tilley as Vesta Beaumont (The nurse) |
Sydney Folker as Chris Barker (The soldier) | |
James Lindsay as Lord Strathmore | |
Norman Cheyne as Billy Williams / Bob Purdy | |
Rutland Barrington as Mr. Beaumont | |
Gordon Sackville as Judd Hampton | |
Storyline : | During the First World War, a nurse disguises herself as a man, |
and carries her wounded fiancé's important military dispatches. | |
Information : | Samuelson engage Vesta Tilley in The Bioscope - 30 March 1916 |
Film announced in Kinematograph Weekly - 13 April 1916 | |
Advertisement in Kinematograph Weekly - 6 July 1916 | |
Comment on Vesta Tilley in The Bioscope - 17 August 1916 | |
Storyline, photograph and review in Kinematograph Weekly - 31 August 1916 | |
Advertisement in The Bioscope - 21 September 1916 | |
Large attendance at film in The Bioscope - 28 September 1916 | |
Large attendance at film in The Bioscope - 12 October 1916 | |
Review in the Western Daily Press - 2 January 1917 | |
Announced in the Preston Herald - 17 March 1917 | |
Notes : | Four reel film. |