| ~Who Are My Parents~ aka A Little Child Shall Lead Them 1922 |
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| ~DAW3-46: L. Rogers Lytton & Peggy Shaw~ |
| ~Plot Synopsis~ |
This drama was plugged as a grand paean to motherhood, but judging from the plot, it seems more
focused on promoting adoption which, in any case, was a noble cause. Betty Lewis (Peggy Shaw) is in
love with Bob Hale (Robert Agnew), but her father, the formidable Colonel Lewis (the formidable L.
Rogers Lytton) disapproves of the match. Betty marries Hale secretly, but he is killed and when Betty's
baby is born, the Colonel takes it away and tells her it died. Later Betty marries another man, Ken Tyler
(Niles Welch), but her father insists that she keep her past a secret. When Betty finds her child in an
orphanage the truth comes out. Tyler denounces her, but he finds out that he, too, was an orphan and he
begs her forgiveness. Director J. Searle Dawley used a group of overly precocious children to play the
orphans at the asylum -- according to critics of the day, some of them acted as if they were three going on
thirty!
Plot Synosis by Janiss Garza, AllMovie.com
focused on promoting adoption which, in any case, was a noble cause. Betty Lewis (Peggy Shaw) is in
love with Bob Hale (Robert Agnew), but her father, the formidable Colonel Lewis (the formidable L.
Rogers Lytton) disapproves of the match. Betty marries Hale secretly, but he is killed and when Betty's
baby is born, the Colonel takes it away and tells her it died. Later Betty marries another man, Ken Tyler
(Niles Welch), but her father insists that she keep her past a secret. When Betty finds her child in an
orphanage the truth comes out. Tyler denounces her, but he finds out that he, too, was an orphan and he
begs her forgiveness. Director J. Searle Dawley used a group of overly precocious children to play the
orphans at the asylum -- according to critics of the day, some of them acted as if they were three going on
thirty!
Plot Synosis by Janiss Garza, AllMovie.com
| Directed by: J. Searle Dawley Written by: Paul Sloane Based on the short story "The Divine Gift" by Merle Johnson (publication undetermined). |
| ~Cast~ L. Rogers Lytton ... Colonel Lewis Peggy Shaw ... Betty Lewis Florence Billings ... Barbara Draper Ernest Hilliard ... Frank Draper Robert Agnew ... Bob Hale Adelaide Prince ... Mrs. Tyler Niles Welch ... Ken (her son) Marie Reichardt ... Hannah Florence Haas ... Orphan Jimmie Lapsley ... Orphan Leonard Rosenfeld ... Lazy Bill |
| ~Remaining Credits~ Produced & Release by: Fox Film Corporation Produced by: William Fox Cinematography by: Joseph Ruttenberg Length: Runtime: 90 Minutes Released: November 26, 1922 |
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| ~DAW3-59: Peggy Shaw, Florence Haas & Jimmie Lapsley~ |
| ~DAW3-24: L. Rogers Lytton & Peggy Shaw~ |
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