The Sunbeam

Feb 26, 1912

0h 15m

★ 6.3

A RAY OF HOPE IN THE TENEMENTS OF AN AMERICAN CITY

Overview

Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

American Mutoscope & Biograph

The Sunbeam Trailers

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Cast

Little Sunbeam

Ynez Seabury

Sunbeam's Mamma

Kate Bruce

The Spinster

Claire McDowell

The Bachelor

Dell Henderson

The Janitor

Charles Hill Mailes

In Tenement Hallway

Priscilla Dean

One of the Children in Hallway

Gladys Egan

Child with Cap in Hallway

Edna Foster

Old Man In Tenement Hallway

W. Chrystie Miller

1st Health Inspector

Adolph Lestina

A Policeman

John T. Dillon

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