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Through the Back Door ()

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When her mother remarries, a young Belgian girl is left behind with her nurse, but when Germany invades the country, she is sent to America to find her mother.
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Jeanne
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Louise Reeves
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Elton Reeves
Helen Raymond ...
Marie
C. Norman Hammond ...
Jacques Lanvain
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Margaret Brewster
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James Brewster
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Conrad
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Constant
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Billy Boy
George Dromgold ...
Chauffeur
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Jeanne (Age 5)
Walter Wilkinson
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Imaginary Mother (uncredited)

Directed by

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Alfred E. Green
Jack Pickford

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Gerald C. Duffy ... (titles)
 
Marion Fairfax ... (adaptation)

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Mary Pickford ... producer

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Robert Israel ... (2005 new score)

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Charles Rosher

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Edward M. McDermott

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Stephen Goosson

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Adele Crinley

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Alfred L. Werker ... assistant director

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Iosif Gerasimovich ... poster artist: Soviet Union
John H. Wallace ... properties

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William S. Johnson ... lighting effects

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Plot Summary

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. Written by Snow Leopard

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Taglines MARY PICKFORD can no more grow up than Peter Pan (Print Ad- Syracuse Journal, ((Syracuse NY)) 21 May 1921) See more »
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Also Known As
  • Par l'entrée de service (France)
  • Die kleine Mutter (Germany)
  • Por la puerta de servicio (Spain)
  • Mães Frívolas (Brazil)
  • Dziewczynka z Ostendy (Poland)
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  • 89 min
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Trivia Swedish author Astrid Lindgren saw the film in 1922 at age 15 and later borrowed a few ideas for her Pippi Longstocking children's books, most notably Pippi using scrubs as skates to clean the floor. See more »
Goofs The telegram from Louise, forgiving Marie, is dated 15 September 1914. Germany invaded Belgium on 4 August. The long voyage to America in addition to the plot complications would have probably taken a lot longer to resolve. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1997). See more »
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