Biography of Sydney Newton FOLKER
[Ref. Q.5]
| Title : | The Girl Who Loves a Soldier |
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| Producer : | G B Samuelson Productions |
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| Director : | Alexander Butler |
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| Studios : | Worton Hall, Isleworth |
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| Released : | September 1916 |
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| Distributor : | Moss Films |
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| 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 | |
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| Storyline : | During the First World War, a nurse disguises herself as a man, |
| and carries her wounded fiancé's important military dispatches. | |
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| 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 | |
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| Notes : | Four reel film. |