Through the Back Door

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Movie Info

As a small child, Jeanne Brodamere (Mary Pickford) is abducted from her American parents by a Belgian peasant. When World War I breaks out, she is sent to the United States to be reunited with her birth parents. Jeanne is accompanied by two orphans and is forced to work as a maid when the socially elite block the identity of her parents to her. She saves her employer from a blackmail scheme and falls in love with Billy (John Harron), the boy next door. Billy rescues her from the blackmailers and helps her find her parents in this routine drama.

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Classics, Drama
Directed By:

Alfred E. Green, Jack Pickford
Written By:

Marion Fairfax
In Theaters:

Dec 31, 1921 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

May 3, 2005
Runtime:

89 minutes

Cast

Mary Pickford
as Jeanne

Gertrude Astor
as Hortense

Wilfred Lucas

Adolphe Menjou
as James Brewster

John Harron

Peaches Jackson

Elinor Fair

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Critic Reviews for Through the Back Door

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It is so silly and so cheap that we found it difficult to place the blame where it belonged and not pas'i on our resentment to Mary Pickford, the star. We are. quite sure, however, that when Mary did it she must have sighed resignedly.

November 6, 2019 | Full Review…

Harriette Underhill
New York Tribune

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Audience Reviews for Through the Back Door

Nov 24, 2011

This mother and daughter drama is a predictable, yet sweet, story. Pickford does an okay job in a role she often played. The rest of the cast seem to be possibly non-actors, with the exception of Menjou, of course. Overall, it's an okay movie.

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