Directed by Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Image Entertainment)
The diminutive woman-child Mary Pickford, here 29 years old and playing a 10 year old child, is abandoned by her wealthy mother in Belgium when she remarries. Left in the care of a peasant woman, Mary is raised on a farm. When war breaks out in Europe she flees to America with 2 abandoned children she finds on the roadside in tow. They look up mom, now living in a mansion but unhappily married. A subplot involving her husband's flirtations with a maid takes up too much time. Meanwhile Mary becomes a maid in the house, afraid to tell mom that she is really her daughter. She has her first romance with a next door neighbor. Eventually everyone is reconciled and there is a happy ending. Pickford is at her best in the comedy routines: cleaning a floor by skating on it with brushes, dealing with a stubborn mule, and has several wonderfully composed close-ups by the great cinematographer Charles Rosher.
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