Polly Biggs helps care for her younger brother and sisters, while her widowed mother works hard as a seamstress to earn a living. Mayor Hoadley, Mrs. Biggs' brother, a crooked politician, calls to sympathize with her on the death of her husband, and Polly takes a dislike to him.
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Peggy Hyland as Polly Biggs
Antonio Moreno as John Oxmore
Mae Costello as Mrs. Biggs
Bobby Connelly as Jimmy Biggs
Helen Connelly as Janet Biggs
Mildred Platz as Alice Biggs
John S. Robertson as Daniel Hoadley
Jack Ellis as Hawkins
Julia Swayne Gordon as Mrs. Hoadley
Paul Scardon Director
Paul West Writer
Robert A. Stuart Director of Photography
William T. Stuart Director of Photography
United States 22 January 1917
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1917:
09 April 1917
Artist model Margot uses her “Power of Decision” to choose between two men she loves, after much distress of course!
21 January 1917
Nina, a blind girl, lives with her grandmother, who has taught her to make artificial flowers, which she sells at a flower-stand.
24 June 1917
The social climbing Flower family is comprised of Mr. Flower, a banker who has overextended himself financially, Mrs.
19 May 1917
Lillian Vale is the naïve and unworldly daughter of minister Josiah Vale. Swept off her feet by handsome Robert Powers, Lillian marries him, unaware that he is constitutionally incapable of fidelity.
30 April 1917
John Howland travels to the frozen North to build a branch of the Hudson Bay Railroad. There he meets and falls in love with Meleese Thoreau who warns him that her three bloodthirsty brothers, Max, Pierre and François, have sworn vengeance against a man named John Howland, the son of a man who killed their mother, and that torture and death await him along the route to his station.
17 March 1917
Originally written for Pearl White, this silent serial is a great action-packed adventure starring Molly King and Leon Bary.
23 September 1917
Brent Brewster, formerly a Yale athlete known for his pole vaulting prowess, is unsuccessful in business.
20 July 1917
The relationship between a painter and his lover fractures after the painter finds out she did not acquire a sum of money by selling his paintings, as she had claimed.
21 October 1917
On the eve of her elopement with Henry Traquair, Margaret Fielding is accidentally discovered in Traquair's apartments by his friends, Captain Richard Haynes and Walter Maxwell.
06 June 1917
Released June 11, 1917, Her Fractured Voice is a one-reel Black Diamond Comedy filmed and produced by the United States Motion Picture Corporation (USMPC) in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
01 November 1917
Informed by her husband Ed that they will not be honeymooning at Niagara Falls as promised, but rather at the County Fair, newlywed Peggy decides it is time to assert her independence and steals away to the falls alone, leaving her bewildered husband to follow.
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