She stole from creeps to feed her family — but can she steal back her soul?
Mary Franklin has a drunken father, an invalid mother, and a kid brother and sister to support. To make ends meet she is works as a hostess in a sleazy cafe, where she steals jewelry from her dancing partners.
Acting
Louise Lovely's face does ALL the talking.
Direction
Hill's shadows scream poverty without a word.
Costume
That cafe hostess dress = visual shorthand for sin.
Director
George W. Hill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1921 audiences saw 'hostess' as code for prostitution — the Hays Code hadn't sanitized cinema yet.
Louise Lovely was Australian cinema's first major star before Hollywood called; this was her American comeback that flopped.
US
