Mary Pickford once again plays a teen - and, for a while, a pre-teen - girl in this dull mix of comedy and melodrama. When the film starts, her character is only four years old, but thankfully even Pickford realised she wasn't going to pull that one off and so a real child was used. In one of his early credited roles, a ridiculously young Adolphe Menjou plays a lounge-room cad attempting to swindle Pickford's estranged stepfather out of his moolah. It's watchable, but nothing special.
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