Through the Back Door (1921)
1921 · Silent film · 90 min · dir. Jack Pickford
- Comedy
- Drama
Synopsis
In Belgium in 1903, widowed Madame Bodamere is remarried to a rich American, who insists that she leave her young daughter Jeanne behind with the child's nurse Marie. Several years later, the mother comes back to reclaim her child, but Marie, not wanting to give up Jeanne, tells the mother that the child is dead. When Belgium is invaded in 1914, Marie fears for Jeanne's safety and sends her, now a teenager, to America along with a letter to Jeanne's mother confessing Marie's deception. On the…
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Details
- Director
- Jack Pickford
- Writer
- Marion Fairfax
- Cinematography
- Charles Rosher
- Studio
- United Artists, Mary Pickford Company
- Released
- 1921-05-05
- Running time
- 90 minutes
Cast & crew
Jack Pickford Director
Mary Pickford
Gertrude Astor
John Harron- Helen Raymond
Adolphe Menjou
Wilfred Lucas
C. Norman Hammond
Elinor Fair
