''The Great Problem'' is a 1916 American silent

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by Rex Ingram and starring

Violet Mersereau Violet Mersereau (October 2, 1892 – November 12, 1975) was an American stage and film actress. Over the course of her screen career, Mersereau appeared in over 100 Short film, short and silent film features. Early life Mersereau was born in Ne ...

, Dan Hanlon and Lionel Adams. It marked Ingram's directorial debut of a

feature film A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a film (Film, motion picture, "movie" or simply “picture”) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole present ...

, having previously made a short. It was shot at Fort Lee in

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. A complete copy of the film is held by the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

.Great Problem, The, International Federation of Film Archives, Brussels.

Cast

as Peggy Carson * Dan Hanlon as Bill Carson * Lionel Adams as George Devereaux *

Kittens Reichert Kittens Reichert (March 3, 1910 – January 11, 1990) was an American child actress in silent films. Biography The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Reichert, she was born Catherine Alma Reichert in Yonkers, New York, but was nicknamed "Kittens ...

as Peggy As A Child * William J. Dyer as "Skinny" McGee *

Mathilde Brundage Mathilde Brundage (September 22, 1859 – May 6, 1939) was an American actress. She appeared in 87 films between 1914 and 1928. Also known as Bertha Brundage, she was born in Louisville, Kentucky. For much of her life, her family thwarted her des ...

as Mrs. Devereaux *

Howard Crampton Howard Crampton (January 12, 1865 – June 15, 1922) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1913 and 1922. He was born in New York City. Partial filmography * ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (1913) ...

as Joseph

References

Bibliography

* Leonhard Gmür. ''Rex Ingram: Hollywood's Rebel of the Silver Screen''. 2013.

External links

* 1916 films 1916 drama films 1910s American films 1910s English-language films American black-and-white films American silent feature films English-language drama films Films directed by Rex Ingram Films shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey Silent American drama films Surviving American silent films Universal Pictures films {{drama-film-stub