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Women Pioneers of Silent CinemaFilm 22 of 22
The Grub-Stake
The Grub Stake
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Nell Shipman, 1923: Faith Diggs sells her hair for her father's medicine, then follows gambler Mark Leroy north on a promise of marriage and a grub-stake. The promise is a trap. She flees into the wilderness with an old prospector and lives among bears until she finds a lost mine and a way out. Shipman wrote, directed, and starred. Her last feature, shot with her own zoo in the Idaho woods.
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Women Pioneers of Silent Cinema
Nell Shipman wrote, directed, and starred in her last feature, shot at Lionhead Lodge in the Idaho woods around Priest Lake with animals from her own menagerie. Faith Diggs sells her hair for medicine, follows a bad grub-stake north on a promise of marriage, and flees into country that could kill her. Shipman's company was already past the Hollywood lot; the production fact is the land and the zoo she brought with her. This is a woman finishing a feature on ground she controlled, then stopping, after Something New had already shown she could finance the work herself.
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