Everybody's Sweetheart (1920)
The Beggar Maid
(Herbert Blaché, US 1921, 25 min., 35mm)
Everybody’s Sweetheart
(Alan Crosland, US 1920, 50 min., 35mm)
Everybody’s Sweetheart represents the final film appearance of “baby vamp” Olive Thomas after a very short career, a marriage to Jack Pickford, and a mysterious death in Paris. After starring as The Flapper earlier in the year, Thomas takes on a rural role here. She plays Mary alongside John (William Collier, Jr.) as a pair of orphans who run away from the county poor farm when a harsh new taskmaster takes over. With the help of an elderly soldier, they find refuge at the home of General Phillip Bingham (Joseph J. Dowling) where they begin a new life. When other guests at the house feel threatened by the newcomers, however, trouble begins to brew again. Preceded by The Beggar Maid, based on the Alfred Tennyson poem “The King and the Beggar-maid” and the 1884 painting of the scene by Sir Edward Burne-Jones.