JOHANNA ENLISTS

Johanna Enlists is a strikingly different and very personal war story. Instead of the guns, cannons and Huns audiences were getting used to in 1918, Mary plays a young woman living quietly with her family on an isolated farm, wondering how she will ever meet a potential husband. When an entire battalion of soldier’s march in to be bivouacked on the land, the war is brought home and she suddenly is faced with a wide choice of suitors. Johanna Enlists served as an important means of encouraging enlistments that were still needed even as the film was released only a few months before the war’s end.

Commentary track by Marc Wanamaker, author and film historian Liner Notes Pictorial Booklet written by the Mary Pickford Foundation Extensive Photo Gallery A Beast at Bay, an American Biograph short film released May 27th, 1912. (Newly mastered in HD with an original score by Dan Light.)