Barbara is still shot and she crawls to William’s bedside. As the crowd jeers her, Jackson warns that anyone who harms her will die like a dog. Believing him dead, Frietchie honors her lover by flying the American flag from the balcony as General Jackson’s troops victoriously parade by. He is wounded and brought to the home of the Frietchies. Over the next several years, they come into contact as Turnbull’s troops come through the city. When war is declared, they are separated before they can be married. She loves William Turnbull, played by Edmund Lowe, who of course sympathizes with the North. In the film, Frietchie, played by the attractive Florence Vidor, and family support the South. Ince recognized the drama inherent in the Civil War story, of a town and families divided between North and South, which offered examples of character, courage, and determination. John Hopkins University students disproved Whittier’s thesis in a study they conducted in 1923, per a Janustory in “The New York Times.” Clyde Fitch’s play of the same name makes the story more romantic by making the heroine young instead of old and adding in romance. As the Fritschie family was famous and respected there, the story became attached to them, which they did nothing to disprove or disown. While there was a real person named Barbara Fritschie in town, she had nothing to do with the incident another woman in her city actually raised the flag. “Barbara Frietchie” was a poem written by John Greenleaf Whittier in 1864, inspired by the legend that the elderly Frietchie proudly displayed the Stars and Stripes outside her home in Frederick, Maryland as Confederate General’s “Stonewall” Jackson’s troops rode by. In 1924, he turned once again to a story of the Civil War, Barbara Frietchie, one that would allow him to employ many studio buildings as stand ins for Maryland buildings and mansions. Here Ince turned out a wide range of films with high artistic values. in Culver City, which later housed Selznick International Pictures and still stands today as the Culver Studios. In 1918 he built a fancy, state of the art studio facility at 9336 W. Building his first studio in 1912 at what is now the intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and Sunset Blvd., Ince churned out mostly westerns and Civil War pictures at this location, stories that possessed fine drama along with exciting action. Thomas Ince, sadly more recognized today for his tragic, early death than for the fine films he created, was one of Hollywood’s most successful early film producers.
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