The Little Girl Next Door is a 1916 American silent drama 6-reel film on white slavery directed by Richard Foster Baker and M. Blair Coan.
Based on the findings of the Illinois Vice Commission, the film features screen appearances by "two congressmen, several Illinois senators, the mayor and chief of police of Chicago, the entire investigation body, the Illinois legislature in a body, and a host of social welfare workers in the Illinois metropolis", according to coverage at the time.
Cast The cast includes: Fritzi Ridgeway as The Little Girl Next Door Peggie Sweeney as Annie Royal Douglas as The Hawk Darwin Karr as The State's Attorney Warda Howard as Marica Moore John Lorena as The Gambier Jane Thomas as The Shopgirl As themselves: Vice-President of the United States, Thomas R. Marshall Speaker of the House, Champ Clark Congressman James R. Mann, author of the "Mann White Slave act" Congressman L. C. Dyer, of St. Louis Governor Edward F. Dunne, of Illinois Lieutenant Governor Barratt O'Hara, of Illinois Secretary of State Lewis G. Stevenson, of Illinois William Hale Thompson, Mayor of Chicago Samuel A. Ettelson, Corporation Counsel of Chicago John Dill Robertson, Health Commissioner of Chicago C. C. Healy, Chief of Police of Chicago Alderman James Lawley, of Chicago Roy D. Keehn, Chicago attorney Edward A. Beall, Mayor of Alton, Illinois Senator Niels Juul, Chicago Senator D. T. Woodward, Benton, Illinois Senator F. Jeff Tossey, Toledo, Illinois St. Clair Drake, Secretary, Illinois Board of Health Bishop Samuel Fallows, of Illinois Arthur Burrage Farwell, Chicago Rev. Melbourne P. Boynton, Woodlawn Baptist Church, Chicago Rev. Alice Phillips Aldrich, Chicago Wirt W. Hallam, Chicago Judge Uhlir, of the Chicago Morals Court Judge Hopkins, of the Chicago Morals Court Florence King Virginia Brooks, Joan d'Ark of East Hammond, Illinois Rev. Elmer Williams, Chicago Anna Dwyer, Chicago Morals Court Maud Cain Taylor
Censorship Before The Little Girl Next Door could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas State Board of Review required the removal of the struggle scenes between men and the girls, and to shorten the fight scene on the stairs.
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