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The Summer Girl

1916 film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ83973225 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Summer Girl is a lost 1916 silent film comedy drama directed by Edwin August and starring Mollie King. It was produced by Peerless Pictures Studios and distributed by World Pictures.

Cast

Mollie King - Mary Anderson

Arthur Ashley - Bruce Haldeman

Dave Ferguson - Smythe Addison

Ruby Hoffman - Katheryn Green

Harold Entwistle - Mr. Anderson

Dora Mills Adams - Mrs.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Summer Girl” as 1916 film. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1916. The account is most persuasive where Summer, Girl and film can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1916 film. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q83973225. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1916.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for
  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Summer Girl”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Summer Girl primary sources, The Summer Girl archive and Summer research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Summer Girl”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “The Summer Girl” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.