The Hoodlum
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.
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"Bratty young Mary Pickford (as Amy Burke) lives a life filled with tantrums in her fancy Fifth Avenue mansion, while wealthy grandfather Ralph Lewis (as Alexander Guthrie) wheels and deals. At first, Ms. Pickford is thrilled when Mr. Lewis announces a trip to Europe. She wants to go shopping. For no particular reason, Pickford decides she doesn't want to travel. It could be a woman's prerogative, or Pickford may be missing writer daddy Dwight Crittendon (as John Burke), an apparent sociologist. When her father suddenly returns, Pickford moves with him to slummy Craigen Street, where ..."
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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.
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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.