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:
06 August 1917
Inconsiderate millionaire John Benson, philanthropist Oliver North, courageous Langdon Crane, wealthy idler Robert Curtis and Lydia Benson are among the passengers on an ocean liner that is sunk by a German submarine.
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.
26 November 1917
Brothers James and Allen Mornington are both addicted to cocaine and both believe that their addiction is caused by a hereditary failing.
20 August 1917
Al and Roscoe, employees at a gas station, are rivals for Alice. When Buster delivers a wedding gown for Alice and begins modeling it, he is mistaken for Alice and is kidnapped by Al.
02 July 1917
The itinerant Jewish country peddler Abraham Jacobs saves his pennies until he can afford to open a small second-hand clothing store.
10 September 1917
Little Betty has a luxurious home, an army of servants and the costliest of toys. But she hasn't what a child wants most of all, other children to play with.
08 October 1917
A Playboy inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain makes an attempt to distract him from reaching the goal, but he, no longer the wastrel of yore, persists and becomes full owner of the property.
24 June 1917
The social climbing Flower family is comprised of Mr. Flower, a banker who has overextended himself financially, Mrs.
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.
02 April 1917
Vere Herbert lives with her wicked mother, Lady Dolly (Marie Curtis), who is living in sin with Lord Jura (Glen White).
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