Through the Back Door

Through the Back Door

🎞️ Movie 89 min US
โ˜… 6.7 /10 1921

In Belgium in 1903, widowed Madame Bodamere is remarried to a rich American, who insists that she leave her young daughter Jeanne behind with the child's nurse Marie. Several years later, the mother comes back to reclaim her child, but Marie, not wanting to give up Jeanne, tells the mother that the child is dead. When Belgium is invaded in 1914, Marie fears for Jeanne's safety and sends her, now a teenager, to America along with a letter to Jeanne's mother confessing Marie's deception. On the trip, Jeanne picks up two young Belgian orphans and takes them with her. Jeanne finds her mother living on a large estate, and is repeatedly denied the chance to explain who she is. She ends up taking a job as a maid in her mother's mansion, and claiming the two orphans as her own. Meanwhile, her mother grows increasingly despondent, and her marriage soon stands on shaky ground.

Cast

Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford
Jeanne
Gertrude Astor
Gertrude Astor
Louise Reeves
Wilfred Lucas
Wilfred Lucas
Elton Reeves
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Helen Raymond
Marie
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C. Norman Hammond
Jacques Lanvain
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Elinor Fair
Margaret Brewster
Adolphe Menjou
Adolphe Menjou
James Brewster
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Peaches Jackson
Conrad
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Doreen Turner
Constant
John Harron
John Harron
Billy Boy
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Robert Israel
Composer
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Charles Rosher
Cinematographer