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Maggie Pepper is a lost film The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Maggie Pepper 1919 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Chester Withey and starring Ethel Clayton. AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Maggie Pepper This film is based on a hit 1911 play by Charles Klein which was a winning success for stage actress Rose Stahl at the Harris Theatre. Maggie Pepper as produced on Broadway at the Harris Theatre, Aug. 31, 1911 to Jan. 1912, 147 performances; IBDb.com
It is not known whether the film currently lost film. Progressive Silent Film List: Maggie Pepper at silentera.com
Both Rose Stahl's manager, Henry B. Harris, and the original playwright, Charles Klein, died in notable disasters: Harris on the in 1912, and Klein on the in 1915.
Harris, a theatrical producer, was also the owner and lessee of the Harris Theatre on 42nd Street where Maggie Pepper played. In April 1913 he was in London, arranging future performances of Maggie Pepper with Stahl and the original American cast. Harris also acquired the US rights to The Miracle, the world's first full-colour narrative feature film which had been showing at the Royal Opera House. Miss Stahl's Return, The Standard (London), 11 April 1912, p. 5, col. 2. (Subscription required, OCR text only.) However, Harris died after the ship he and his wife were travelling on, the , hit an iceberg, although his wife survived.
Charles Klein died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915. Another victim on the Lusitania was Charles Frohman, also a well-known theatrical producer. Frohman had produced one of Klein's first successes, Heartsease, with Henry Miller, and was also the manager and lessee of the Park Theatre, Boston, where Rose Stahl (managed by Harris) played in The Chorus Lady in 1908.Playbill for the Chorus Lady at the Park Theatre, Boston.
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