You've seen it all before. Mary Pickford's final silent film is the usual 20's chick flick in which shopgirl Mary catches the eye of the owner's son (working incognito, of course), millionaires and judges have hearts of gold (including a remarkably dapper Mack Swain), she shows that she can't be bought by gratuitously pretending to be heartless & mercenary (not too succesfully, naturally) and there's a final, hectic chase as unbelievable as anything else in the rest of the film.
Backed by a slick production and a solid supporting cast (Lucien Littlefield - who plays Mary's father - was two years her junior), you've seen it all before; and the handful of talkies Mary was to make marked a decisive but unprofitable attempt to diversify after which she soon retired to marry leading man Charles 'Buddy' Rogers in 1937 with whom she lived happily ever after at Pickfair.
Backed by a slick production and a solid supporting cast (Lucien Littlefield - who plays Mary's father - was two years her junior), you've seen it all before; and the handful of talkies Mary was to make marked a decisive but unprofitable attempt to diversify after which she soon retired to marry leading man Charles 'Buddy' Rogers in 1937 with whom she lived happily ever after at Pickfair.