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The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time.
Summary. Penrod, who would rather hide in the haystall writing bloody adventure stories, is obligated to appear in a children’s pageant as the Child Sir Lancelot. To further his humiliation, his ...
Synopsis. Penrod Schofield, who has a reputation as a troublemaker, is the president of the American Boys' Protective Association, which meets each week to report the wrongs inflicted by parents, unkind neighbors, and thoughtless policemen. During a hectic summer Penrod breaks up an amateur theatrical production and scandalizes a dancing class ...
- Marshall Neilan, Thomas Held, Frank O'connor
- Wesley Barry
Penrod (1922), silent feature film, with Wesley Barry as Penrod [ 4 ] and Gordon Griffith as Sam. Penrod and Sam (1923), silent feature film, based on the first sequel to Penrod, with Ben Alexander as Penrod [ 5 ] and Joe Butterworth as Sam. Penrod and Sam (1931), feature film with Leon Janney as Penrod [ 4 ] and Frank Coghlan, Jr. as Sam.
- Booth Tarkington, Grant Gordon
- 1914
Despite his objections, Penrod was dramatized, and later, in the 1930s, adapted to film. Tarkington was right. Of the three films involving the characters from Penrod, none became an outstanding movie. The first appeared in 1931, Penrod and Sam. Seven years later, two more films were produced at Warner Brothers Studios, Penrod's Double Trouble ...
Color. Black and White. Theatrical Aspect Ratio. 1.37 : 1. Film Length. 7 reels. Penrod Schofield gets into a fight with Rodney Bitts, the son of his father's boss, because Rodney torments younger and smaller Verman Diggs. Rodney lies to his father about the cause of the fight, however, stating that Penrod attacked him without provocation.
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Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914. The book follows the trials and misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States, in a similar vein to Tom Sawyer.
