A child star sent to Quaker grandparents while her parents fight WWI — what could go wrong?
Madge Evans, World Film Corp. juvenile star, is sent to her Quaker grandparents, Timothy and Tabitha Mendenhall, when her father and mother go to serve in World War I. After bidding farewell to the World stars, Madge goes to her grandparent's home where she experiences stern discipline.
Acting
Madge Evans, actual juvenile star playing fictionalized herself
Production
World Film Corp's meta-narrative of stardom and domestic duty
Director
Harley Knoles
Madge Evans
Self
Henry Hull
Jonathan Mendenhall
Muriel Ostriche
Madge's Mother
Jack Drumier
Timothy Mendenhall
Kate Lester
Tabitha Mendenhall
Kitty Gordon
Self - Cameo Appearance
Ethel Clayton
Self - Cameo Appearance
June Elvidge
Self - Cameo Appearance
Evelyn Greeley
Self - Cameo Appearance
Carlyle Blackwell
Self - Cameo Appearance
Montagu Love
Self - Cameo Appearance
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Madge Evans was a genuine child star at World Film Corp, making this perhaps cinema's earliest example of a performer playing a thinly fictionalized version of themselves.
Released April 1917, mere weeks after America's WWI entry — the film weaponized parental sacrifice as patriotic propaganda while simultaneously critiquing it through the child's suffering.
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