- Country: USA
- Genres: Drama, Romance, Short
- Release: 1912-02-26
- Director: D.W. Griffith
- Writers: George Hennessy
- Language: None | English
- Stars: Ynez Seabury , Kate Bruce , Claire McDowell , Dell Henderson , Adolph Lestina , Joseph McDermott , Charles Hill Mailes , Mabel Taliaferro , Priscilla Dean , John T. Dillon
- Runtime: 17 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: The Sunbeam , The Sunbeam (United States of America) , Le rayon de soleil (France, French Republic) , Жизнерадостный ребенок (Russian Federation)
- Plot: Set in a tenement boarding house, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks. Believing the bachelor perpetrated one particular prank, the spinster woman enters his room to confront him. She is followed by a neighbor child. Meanwhile, the other children have stolen a scarlet fever quarantine sign and posted it on the bachelor's door. The police, unaware that the quarentine sign is a prank, enforce the confinement. But aided by the sweet disposition of the toddler quarantined with them, the icy relations between spinster and bachelor begin to thaw, . . .
- IMDB:tt0002512
The Sunbeam Cast · · · ALL
D.W. Griffith
Director
Ynez Seabury
Little Sunbeam
Kate Bruce
Sunbeam's Mamma
Claire McDowell
The Spinster
Dell Henderson
The Bachelor
Charles Hill Mailes
The Janitor
Priscilla Dean
In Tenement Hallway
Gladys Egan
One of the Children in Hallway
Edna Foster
Child with Cap in Hallway
W. Chrystie Miller
Old Man In Tenement Hallway
Adolph Lestina
1st Health Inspector
John T. Dillon
A Policeman