The Beggar Maid
MovieTitle | The Beggar Maid |
User score | 5.5 |
Release date | Sep 25, 1921 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Herbert Blaché |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Triart Picture Company |
Run time | 30 min. |
The painter Burne-Jones and his famed painting "The Beggar Maid" are depicted in this speculative drama about the creation of the painting. Burne-Jones plays matchmaker for a young British nobleman who has fallen in love with a servant girl on his estate. The artist shows that love can thrive between members of different classes by depicting on canvas a picture from Tennyson's poem about the love of King Cophetua for a beggar maid. As he relates the story of the poem in words and through his painting, the young earl sees the application to his own situation.