Peggy Leads the Way is a 1917

1917 in film

The year 1917 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Foundation of Universum Film AG , as a propaganda film company, in Berlin.*Technicolor System 1, a two-color process, is introduced...

 silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 directed by Lloyd Ingraham. A copy of the film was first found at the Dutch Filmmuseum

Netherlands Filmmuseum

EYE Film Institute Netherlands is located in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It includes a cinematography museum formerly called Filmmuseum, founded in 1952. Its predecessor was the Dutch Historic Film Archive, founded in 1946...

. They sold it to the American Film Institute

American Film Institute

The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act...

 in 1991.

Plot

Peggy Manners has just finished finishing school and returns home. She has always thought her father was a great and wealthy store owner, but finds out he is a grocery store owner who isn't making any profit. She tries to make a change and falls in love with the son of the wealthy Roland Gardiner.

Cast

• Mary Miles Minter
  Mary Miles Minter
  Mary Miles Minter was an American film actress of the silent film era.-Early life and rise to stardom:Born Juliet Reilly in Shreveport, Louisiana, Minter was the daughter of Broadway actress Charlotte Shelby...
  
   - Peggy Manners
• Andrew Arbuckle
  Andrew Arbuckle (actor)
  Andrew Arbuckle was an American stage and film actor. He was the brother of Macklyn Arbuckle and cousin of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.-Early life and career:...
  
   - H.E. Manners
• Carl Stockdale
  Carl Stockdale
  Carl Stockdale also known as Carlton Stockdale was one of the longest-working Hollywood veteran actors, with a career dating from the early 1910s. He also made the difficult transition from silent films, to talkies....
  
   - Roland Gardiner
• Allan Forrest
  Allan Forrest
  Allan Forrest was an American silent film actor.-Life and career:He starred in 119 films mostly silent between 1913 and 1932 in films such as The Torch Bearer, with actresses such as Charlotte Burton....
  
   - Clyde Gardiner
• Emma Kluge - Mrs. Greenwood
• Margaret Shelby
  Margaret Shelby
  Margaret Shelby was an American stage and motion picture actress, daughter of actress Charlotte Shelby, older sister of silent film star Mary Miles Minter and one of many public figures noted in the scandals which followed the murder of William Desmond Taylor in 1922.-Film career:Born as Margaret...
  
  - Maude Greenwood