The Big Little Person
1919, English. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard.
After Arathea Manning loses her hearing during an epidemic of scarlet fever among the children she teaches, her fiancé Arthur Endicott, who is involved with another woman, complains of always having to shout to make himself heard. An inventor, Gerald Staples, gives Arathea an auriphone, a device to restore her hearing, but one of her problem pupils, in a fit of rage, breaks it. Gerald asks Arathea, whom he calls "The Big Little Person -- small in size, but big in ideas," to be the secretary of his new company marketing the invention. He falls in love with her and plays the piano for her even though she hears only rumblings.
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- 1h 0m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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- Released
- 12 May 1919
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Hooper Eastman, Bess Meredyth
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The Big Little Person isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 12 May 1919. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Big Little Person?
The Big Little Person (1919) was directed by Robert Z. Leonard and stars Mae Murray, Clarissa Selwynne, Rudolph Valentino.