Home Movies TV Series Search Sign in

The School Teacher and the Waif

4.8 17 mins Drama   1912
American Mutoscope & Biograph  
Director(s): D.W. Griffith

Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shame. Unsupervised by her alcoholic father, Nora becomes a determined truant, wandering the town during school hours. There she catches the attention of a huckster, who convinces her that they will run away and be married. The schoolmaster, meanwhile, preoccupied by Nora's absence, leaves his other students to go find her. He encounters her at a crossroads, being spirited away by the huckster, and calls the man's bluff by saying that he'll find them a minister.

Casts of The School Teacher and the Waif

Edwin August

as The School Teacher

Mary Pickford

as Nora, the Waif

Charles Hill Mailes

as Nora's Father

Bert Hendler

as A Street Fakir

Claire McDowell

as The Street Fakir's Sweetheart

William A. Carroll

as The Street Fakir's Assistant

Robert Harron

as Schoolboy

Ella Hall

as Schoolgirl (unconfirmed)

Grace Henderson

as A Mother

Mae Marsh

as Schoolgirl

Frank Opperman

as At the Bee

Alfred Paget

as At the Bee

Jack Pickford

as Extra

Antrim Short

as Student (uncredited)

You might also like