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- The film was produced in 1914 by Adolf Zukor 's Famous Players Film Company with a budget of $10,000. One of the first feature films to come out of early Hollywood, shooting was spread between the California cities of Del Mar and Santa Monica.
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Tess of the Storm Country is a 1914 silent drama directed by Edwin S. Porter. It is based on the 1909 novel of the same name by Grace Miller White. It stars Mary Pickford, in a role she would reprise eight years later for the 1922 adaptation by John S. Robertson. [1] [2]
Tess of the Storm Country: Directed by Edwin S. Porter. With Mary Pickford, Harold Lockwood, Olive Carey, David Hartford. A wealthy resident attempts to dispossess squatters who live near his home, which leads to a false accusation of murder.
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Tess of the Storm Country is a 1922 silent film starring Mary Pickford, directed by John S. Robertson, and based upon a Grace Miller White novel. It is a remake of Pickford's film from eight years prior and was subsequently remade a decade later as a sound version starring Janet Gaynor.
Filming Location: Santa Monica and Del Mar, CA Note: An enormous success at the box office, Tess of the Storm Country would be re-made three times; Pickford’s own 1922 update, a 1932 Fox talkie with Janet Gaynor, and again at Fox in 1960 with Diane Baker in the title role.
With the release of Tess of the Storm Country in 1914, she was firmly established as “America’s Sweetheart.” In 1917 First National Films paid her \$350,000 for each of three films, including the very successful Daddy-Long-Legs (1919).
Tess of the Storm Country: Directed by John S. Robertson. With Mary Pickford, Lloyd Hughes, Gloria Hope, David Torrence. Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill; a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom.
Tess of the Storm Country ★★½ 1922. Pickford remade her own 1914 film for the better, starring as poor Tessibel Skinner, who takes in her lover Frederick Graves' (Hughes) pregnant sister, Teola (Hope), and then says the child is hers to protect the unwed mom from her ruthless father (Torrence).
