Production: The Pickford Corp. A Frank Borzage Production. Distribution: United Artists Corp. Producer: Frank Borzage. Director: Frank Borzage. Based on the play Secrets by Rudolf Besier and May Edginton. Screenwriter: Frances Marion. Cinematographer: Ray June. Art Direction: Richard Day. Editor: Hugh Bennett. Music: Alfred Newman. With: Mary Pickford, Leslie Howard, C. Aubrey Smith, Blanche Friderici, Doris Lloyd.
In her final screen appearance Mary Pickford plays the daughter of a 19th century New England shipping magnate whisked away to California by Leslie Howard’s office clerk. From a fairytale opening to the brutalism of the frontier, director Frank Borzage strikes a number of registers in returning to Besier and Eddington’s play to chart love’s perseverance from first bloom to old age.
35mm, b/w, 90 min.
