M'Liss is a 1936

1936 in film

The year 1936 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May 29 - Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, is released.*November 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 starring Anne Shirley. The film was directed by George Nichols Jr. and based upon a Bret Harte

Bret Harte

Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.- Life and career :...

 novel. It is a remake of the 1918 version

M'Liss (1918 film)

M'Liss is a 1918 silent film directed by Marshall Neilan, written by Frances Marion and based on a Bret Harte's story. The film was made previously in 1915 and was remade again in 1922 as The Girl Who Ran Wild, starring Gladys Walton. Another same-titled remake was released in 1936, starring Anne...

 starring Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

 in the title role.

Plot

M'Liss is an innocent young girl who was born and raised in a village on the mountain. Her father is known among the people as the town drunk and M'Liss has to take care of him. One day, the school master flirts with and kisses her. She is confused and asks for advice in a brothel.

Cast

• Anne Shirley - M'Liss Smith
• John Beal
  John Beal (actor)
  -Life and career:Beal was born James Alexander Bliedung in Joplin, Missouri. He originally went to New York to study art but a chance to understudy in a play made him change his mind. He began acting in the 1930s, opposite Katharine Hepburn , among others; one of his notable screen appearances was...
  
   - Stephen Thorne
• Guy Kibbee
  Guy Kibbee
  Guy Bridges Kibbee was an American stage and film actor.Born in El Paso, Texas, Kibbee began his entertainment career on Mississippi riverboats and eventually became a successful Broadway actor...
  
   - Washoe Smith
• Douglass Dumbrille
  Douglass Dumbrille
  Douglass Dumbrille was a Canadian actor and one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.-Life and career:...
  
   - Lou Ellis
• Moroni Olsen
  Moroni Olsen
  Moroni Olsen was an American actor.-Biography:Olsen was born in Ogden, Utah to Mormon parents Edward Arenholt Olsen and Marsha Hoverholst who named him after the Moroni found in the Book of Mormon. Some sources have claimed that Olsen's birth name was John Willard Clawson, or even John Willard...
  
   - Jake
• Frank M. Thomas
  Frank M. Thomas
  Frank Marion Thomas , was an American actor on the stage, screen and television.Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, to Jesse and Virginia Thomas, he first appeared on Broadway in 1914. Thomas also played many supporting roles in films from the 1930s through the 1970s...
  
   - Alf Edwards
• Ray Mayer - Whitey
• Barbara Pepper - Clytie Morpher
• William 'Billy' Benedict - Archer Morpher
• Arthur Hoyt
  Arthur Hoyt
  Arthur Hoyt was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 275 films in his 34 year film career, about a third of them silent films. He was a brother of Harry O...
  
  - Mayor James Morpher