A runaway girl, two men, and a proposal that'll make you scream 'absolutely not, sir.'
Gretchen Ann runs away from her foster parents but is sheltered first by Bill Kelley, a train brakeman, then by elderly oilman Pete Sebastian. After Gretchen keeps Sebastian from being duped by a medium, he sends her to a fashionable school, asking that she agree to marry him when she returns.
Production
King Baggot's direction of 1920s moral melodrama conventions.
Acting
Gladys Walton's final screen role before scandalous retirement.
Director
King Baggot
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gladys Walton's scandalous 1923 divorce and subsequent retirement at 24 effectively erased her from Hollywood memory.
The 'send her to finishing school then marry her' plot directly mirrors Progressive Era anxieties about working-class women's upward mobility through male patronage.
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