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Release year: 1919

Storyline

A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of unpleasantness.

Top credits

Directors

Sidney Franklin

Writers

Cast

Mary Pickford — Amy Burke
Ralph Lewis — Alexander Guthrie
Kenneth Harlan — William Turner
T.D. Crittenden — John Burke

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Did you know

• Fatty Arbuckle's cousin, Andrew Arbuckle, plays the role of the Irish immigrant, Pat O'Shaughnessy, in the film.

• The film, released one year after the end of World War I, is proceeded by two short public service advertisements featuring Mary Pickford playing a schoolgirl. In the first she is writing on a school chalkboard that reads, in cursive, "Be an American help Uncle Sam pay for the War. The fighting is over but the paying aint." Someone offscreen is talking to her. She then adds the word "not" at the end. Then, after some additional prompting erases aint and adds "is". In the second public service announcement, she is again at the blackboard, writing in print "Buy WAR SAVINGS STAMP". Again, someone off camera prompts her and she adds a small "s" at the end. Then smiles and curtseys.

• This was the 2nd film released by Mary Pickford's own production company, and each title card has her initials "MP". Using the producer's initials on title cards as a trademark was also used by DW Griffith. Griffith, Pickford, her husband Douglas Fairbanks, along with Charlie Chaplin went on to form United Artist studios one year after the release of this film in 1920.