Nina, the Flower Girl

Nina, the Flower Girl

Drama | Jan. 21, 1917

Nina, a blind girl, lives with her grandmother, who has taught her to make artificial flowers, which she sells at a flower-stand. Nina, and Jimmie, a crippled newsboy who sells papers on the same corner, are sweethearts. Nina's grandmother dies, and she turns to Jimmie. One day Jimmie has a fight with another newsboy, whom he thinks is hanging about Nina's stand too much, and the other boy is soon begging for mercy. Miss Fifi Chandler, an artist, happens to be passing, and becoming interested, she accompanies Nina and Jimmie to their rooms, and is surprised to find that Jimmie is an artist, having made a beautiful plaster cast of Nina. Fifi brings Jimmie and his protégé to the notice of her fellow artist, Fred Townsend, who falls in love with Nina.

Nina, the Flower Girl

Drama | Jan. 21, 1917

Nina, the Flower Girl
Nina, a blind girl, lives with her grandmother, who has taught her to make artificial flowers, which she sells at a flower-stand. Nina, and Jimmie, a crippled newsboy who sells papers on the same corner, are sweethearts. Nina's grandmother dies, and she turns to Jimmie. One day Jimmie has a fight with another newsboy, whom he thinks is hanging about Nina's stand too much, and the other boy is soon begging for mercy. Miss Fifi Chandler, an artist, happens to be passing, and becoming interested, she accompanies Nina and Jimmie to their rooms, and is surprised to find that Jimmie is an artist, having made a beautiful plaster cast of Nina. Fifi brings Jimmie and his protégé to the notice of her fellow artist, Fred Townsend, who falls in love with Nina.
Producers
Original title Nina, the Flower Girl
Directors Lloyd Ingraham
Writers

Cast

Bessie Love

as Nina

Elmer Clifton

as Jimmie

Bert Hadley

as Fred Townsend

Loyola O'Connor

as Mrs. Townsend

Alfred Paget

as Archie Dean

Fred Warren

as Dr. Fletcher

Adele Clifton

as Fifi Chandler

Rhea Haines

as Lotta

Jennie Lee

as Nina's grandmother