After stealing a loaf of bread to help her sickly, poor neighbor, shoeshine girl ( Gladys Hulette ) is caught and taken by authorities to juvenile court. Judge Clayton ( Wayne Arey ) recognizes the theft was motivated by kindness and drops the charges bringing the shine girl to his mother's home in the country. While at home, Clayton meets an old sweetheart, Margaret Kenyon ( Kathryn Adams ) who is happily married. However, they decide to run away together, but when the shine girl finds out, she scolds Clayton telling him that, just as it was wrong for her to take the bread, it is wrong for him to take another man's wife. As a result of this counsel, Clayton calls off the elopement, and begins to fall in love with the shine girl, and they eventually marry.
The Shine Girl garnered rave reviews for actress Gladys Hulette, and the public loved the Pollyanna type character. Sadly it now remains a lost silent film.
ARTICLE, The Moving Picture World, October 21, 1916:
"The Shine Girl, the Pathé Gold Rooster Play produced by Thanhouser, has been taken up by women's clubs everywhere. In San Antonio, Texas, according to The Light, of that city, the local Women's Club arranged for a private showing of the picture, and after seeing it the members told the reporter that The Shine Girl was 'the cleanest, sweetest picture' they had ever seen, declared that there should be more pictures of the sort to 'bring sunshine into people's lives.'"
The Shine Girl garnered rave reviews for actress Gladys Hulette, and the public loved the Pollyanna type character. Sadly it now remains a lost silent film.
ARTICLE, The Moving Picture World, October 21, 1916:
"The Shine Girl, the Pathé Gold Rooster Play produced by Thanhouser, has been taken up by women's clubs everywhere. In San Antonio, Texas, according to The Light, of that city, the local Women's Club arranged for a private showing of the picture, and after seeing it the members told the reporter that The Shine Girl was 'the cleanest, sweetest picture' they had ever seen, declared that there should be more pictures of the sort to 'bring sunshine into people's lives.'"
