The Spirit of Christmas (1913)
Overview
The day before Christmas in a squalid tenement room shared by young sisters Nell and Bess, their brother Tom, and their 18-year-old sister Anne the younger children gather all their pennies and give them to Anne so she can buy Christmas presents for them. Anne looks at their meager savings with a sad smile, letting the coins trickle through her fingers onto the table, knowing the few pennies will not be enough to buy presents.
Cast
William Humphrey
The Man of Wealth
Marie Weirman
Anne
Ethel Corcoran
One of the Children
Rose Tapley
Jane
Tefft Johnson
Teddy Vandeveer
Mary Maurice
The Mother
George Stewart
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