American actress Marguerite Clark played the title role in the Famous Players production The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917). The film was released in Spain as La hija del jugador. Cinematography was by H. Lyman Broening. Distributor was Paramount Pictures. The Valentine Girl, based on a story by Laura Sawyer, is presumed lost, but this series of Amattler postcards is complete.
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 1. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 2. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 3. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 4. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 5. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 6. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
In The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917), Marguerite Clark plays Marion Morgan, a motherless young girl. She is given up by her guardian Lucille Haines (Kathryn Adams) to be henceforth raised by her father, John Morgan (Frank Losee), despite his criminal past.
Under the enchanting influence of his daughter, Morgan renounces his life of crime. However, a former partner (Adolphe Menjou) frames him for a bank robbery he did not commit, and he is sent to prison.
The distraught Marion runs away and upon taking refuge in a church, she is found and eventually adopted by a kind clergyman family named Bates. As the years pass, Marion grows into a young, beautiful woman who becomes engaged to her childhood friend, now a young man in high society, Robert Wentworth (Richard Barthelmess).
When her father is finally released, he seeks to reclaim his daughter. Ashamed, Morgan asks his daughter's forgiveness and explains being sent to prison on false charges. Marion is afraid Robert will back out when he will hear about her identity, but his love his bigger. Once the father's good name is restored, nothing prevents a marriage between Marion and her fiancé anymore.
The Valentine Girl was typical for Clark's child-woman-like characters (she was only 1.50 m.), a type popular in the 1910s (cf. Mary Pickford, Lilian Gish and Mary Miles Minter, who however were blondes while Clark was a brunette).
The Valentine Girl was released in late April 1917. While the Moving Picture World lauded Clark's performance: "She throws into her work all of her charm of impersonation", the Los Angeles Times was unimpressed: "A stock comedy of reminiscent quality."
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 7. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 8. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 9. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 10. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark and Richard Barthelmess in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 11. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 12 (of 12). Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Source: Curtis Nunn (Marguerite Clark, America's Darling of Broadway and the Silent Screen); Pamela Short (IMDb), and IMDb
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 1. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 2. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 3. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 4. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 5. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 6. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
All of her charm of impersonation
In The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917), Marguerite Clark plays Marion Morgan, a motherless young girl. She is given up by her guardian Lucille Haines (Kathryn Adams) to be henceforth raised by her father, John Morgan (Frank Losee), despite his criminal past.
Under the enchanting influence of his daughter, Morgan renounces his life of crime. However, a former partner (Adolphe Menjou) frames him for a bank robbery he did not commit, and he is sent to prison.
The distraught Marion runs away and upon taking refuge in a church, she is found and eventually adopted by a kind clergyman family named Bates. As the years pass, Marion grows into a young, beautiful woman who becomes engaged to her childhood friend, now a young man in high society, Robert Wentworth (Richard Barthelmess).
When her father is finally released, he seeks to reclaim his daughter. Ashamed, Morgan asks his daughter's forgiveness and explains being sent to prison on false charges. Marion is afraid Robert will back out when he will hear about her identity, but his love his bigger. Once the father's good name is restored, nothing prevents a marriage between Marion and her fiancé anymore.
The Valentine Girl was typical for Clark's child-woman-like characters (she was only 1.50 m.), a type popular in the 1910s (cf. Mary Pickford, Lilian Gish and Mary Miles Minter, who however were blondes while Clark was a brunette).
The Valentine Girl was released in late April 1917. While the Moving Picture World lauded Clark's performance: "She throws into her work all of her charm of impersonation", the Los Angeles Times was unimpressed: "A stock comedy of reminiscent quality."
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 7. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 8. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 9. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 10. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark and Richard Barthelmess in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 11. Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Spanish postcard by Chocolate Amatller, Marca Luna, Series 10, no. 12 (of 12). Photo: Famous Players / Paramount. Marguerite Clark in The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917).
Source: Curtis Nunn (Marguerite Clark, America's Darling of Broadway and the Silent Screen); Pamela Short (IMDb), and IMDb
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