The Little Bride of Heaven - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Little Carmelita and her mother are extremely poor, so poor that there is no money to buy clothes for her upcoming First Communion. She has studied hard, looking forward to this important event in her life with great joy, and is ...See moreLittle Carmelita and her mother are extremely poor, so poor that there is no money to buy clothes for her upcoming First Communion. She has studied hard, looking forward to this important event in her life with great joy, and is heartbroken when she learns that it is impossible to procure the clothes. She feels her position keenly, especially as several of her little friends visit her and display their pretty white dresses. They ask to see her clothes, and she is forced to admit that she has none and bursts out crying. Her faith is terribly shaken and she throws her Catechism at the feet of the Virgin and rushes from the house. Outside she meets Pharos, a newsboy who tells her of a wigmaker who has admired her beautiful hair and is willing to pay her six dollars for it. Carmelita sees her opportunity to have her dress after all and goes to the wigmaker's, where her beautiful tresses are cut and she is the happy possessor of six dollars. Emerging from the shop she faces Pharos, who stares at her horror-struck and hurries away. Carmelita catches sight of herself in the window. She too is frightened at the change in her appearance and hurries home. Here she finds the owner of the tenement threatening to eject her mother unless the two months' rent is paid immediately. Carmelita, after a struggle, sacrifices the money for her dress and pays the rent. Her mother, demanding the source of the money, discovers Carmelita's shorn head, and realizing what the sacrifice must have cost her, gently folds her in her arms. Mrs. Litinsky, a neighbor, has witnessed the scene, and steals softly from the room, leaving mother and daughter along. Going to her own home she gets from a trunk in the cellar a little white dress, veil, wreath, slippers, etc., in which her own dead daughter Rachel had been confirmed. Meanwhile, Carmelita and her mother burn a candle, offer a prayer to the Holy Mother, and leave together with peace in their hearts. Mrs. Litinsky slips upstairs, places Rachel's white clothes before the little altar, and quietly slips out. Carmelita finds them there when she returns. Her surprise quickly turns to joy; surely the Holy Mother heard her prayer and performed this miracle. The next Sunday, Carmelita walks at the head of the procession with a grateful heart and an inspired soul, for of all the little brides of Heaven, her faith was the strongest. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less