The Big Little Person

Overview

After Arathea Manning loses her hearing during an epidemic of scarlet fever among the children she teaches, her fiancé Arthur Endicott, who is involved with another woman, complains of always having to shout to make himself heard. An inventor, Gerald Staples, gives Arathea an auriphone, a device to restore her hearing, but one of her problem pupils, in a fit of rage, breaks it. Gerald asks Arathea, whom he calls "The Big Little Person -- small in size, but big in ideas," to be the secretary of his new company marketing the invention. He falls in love with her and plays the piano for her even though she hears only rumblings.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 12, 1919

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Universal Film Manufacturing Company

Cast

Gerard Alexander,Allan Sears,Rudolph Valentino,Mae Murray,Clarissa Selwynne

Director

Robert Z. Leonard

Writer

Rebecca Lane,Bess Meredyth,Hooper Eastman

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0009929