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The Big Little Person
The Big Little Person

The Big Little Person

Drama
May 12, 19191h 0m
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.

Director
Robert Z. Leonard
Robert Z. Leonard
Production
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Cast
Mae Murray
Mae MurrayArathea Manning
Clarissa Selwynne
Clarissa SelwynneMrs. Manning
Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph ValentinoArthur Endicott
Allan Sears
Allan SearsGerald Staples
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Gerard AlexanderMarion Beemis