Friends (1912 film)

Friends is a 1912 film written and directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Mary Pickford, Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore, and Harry Carey. Walthall and Barrymore portray two old friends who each wind up involved with a beautiful girl (Pickford) who lives above a mining camp saloon.

The film, by the Biograph Company, was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey when many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century. A print of Friends was run at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in July 2007 as part of a Biograph retrospective.

It contains what Mary Pickford said in a CBC Radio interview to be the first closeup shot in all of cinema! (one taken of herself)

Cast

 * Mary Pickford as Dora (the orphan)
 * Henry B. Walthall as Dandy Jack
 * Lionel Barrymore as Grizzley Fallon (Dandy Jack's friend)
 * Harry Carey as Bob Kyne (the prospector)
 * Charles Hill Mailes as The bartender
 * Elmer Booth as Man in saloon
 * Frank Evans as Man in saloon
 * Robert Harron as Stableboy
 * Adolph Lestina as Man in saloon
 * Walter Miller as Man in saloon
 * W. C. Robinson as Man in saloon