Pippa Passes; or, The Song of Conscience is a 1909 silent short directed D. W. Griffith. It was produced and distributed by the Biograph Company. It is based on a play Pippa Passes by Robert Browning.
It is preserved from a paper print.
New York Times milestone On October 10, 1909 – six days after its release – Pippa Passes became the first motion picture ever reviewed by The New York Times.
Cast Gertrude Robinson – Pippa George Nichols – Pippa's Husband Arthur V. Johnson – Luca Marion Leonard – Ottima Owen Moore – Sibald
continuing cast Linda Arvidson – Greek Model Clara T. Bracy – Adele DeGarde – James Kirkwood – In Bar Anthony O'Sullivan – In Studio Mary Pickford – Girl in Crowd Billy Quirk – In Studio Mack Sennett – In Studio Henry B. Walthall –
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(AFI Film ID 37157). Retrieved 25 September 2015.
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; . Note: The author, Linda Arvidson, who played a Greek model in the 1909 film, Pippa Passes, was, from 1906 to 1936, married to the director, David Wark Griffith (1875–1948). ; .
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External links Pippa Passes at IMDb.com