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The Virtue of Rags
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Theodore Wharton

Cast: Francis X. Bushman [the grouch], Helen Dunbar [the widow], Bryant Washburn [the rent collector], Howard Missimer [the butler], Margaret Steppling [the child], Harry Cashman [the first clubman], Frank Dayton [the second clubman], Ruth Stonehouse, Dolores Cassinelli, Whitney Raymond [the bellboy]

Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Edward T. Lowe Jr., from a [?] story? by Charles Dickens. / Released 17 December 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the United Kingdom on 6 March 1913.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 16 September 2018.

References: Sloan-Loud pp. 28-29, 152 : Website-IMDb.