"A RAY OF HOPE IN THE TENEMENTS OF AN AMERICAN CITY" 26 February 1912 Drama, Comedy 15 mins
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.
Watch the official The Sunbeam 1912 trailer in HD below.
Ynez Seabury as Little Sunbeam
Kate Bruce as Sunbeam's Mamma
Claire McDowell as The Spinster
Dell Henderson as The Bachelor
Charles Hill Mailes as The Janitor
Priscilla Dean as In Tenement Hallway
Gladys Egan as One of the Children in Hallway
Edna Foster as Child with Cap in Hallway
W. Chrystie Miller as Old Man In Tenement Hallway
Adolph Lestina as 1st Health Inspector
John T. Dillon as A Policeman
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United States 26 February 1912
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