The Little Doll's Dressmaker (1915)
June, sixteen years old, lame and daughter of a lodging house keeper in the poorer districts, spends most of her time when not sewing for her ill-tempered chorus-girl sister, Nance, in making doll clothes for the children of the neighborhood, who idolize her. The father, feeble and good-natured, is June's good friend and chum, and the two often indulge in surreptitious feasts to which they invite John Lincoln, an impecunious young writer who lodges with them. Gradually a tender love develops between John and his little lame friend. To satisfy her insatiable craving for pretty clothes, Nance steals from an elderly lodger, who notifies the police. The money is found in a bureau used jointly by Nance and June. The former flatly accuses her sister, her mother upholds her, and June is sent to a reform school. There her sunny disposition slowly transforms the whole atmosphere of the school. She gets the roughest element to spend their spare time dressing dolls for the children of the orphan asylum next door. Through her sweet influence, one of the hardest characters is reformed and through this June comes to the notice of the directors and a cranky old surgeon. He becomes interested in her case and pronounces June's lameness to be curable. Meanwhile, Nance has eloped with one of their lodgers, only to find at the birth of her baby that she is not his legal wife. She returns home and on her deathbed confesses the theft for which June is paying the penalty. The sanitarium gives a fair, in which dolls made by the inmates are put on sale. June dresses as a doll, poses on a pedestal with the sign, "Not for sale," but John Lincoln, now a successful author, sees the girl, and offers her a loving heart as the purchase price, which Jane smilingly accepts.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Wilfrid North | Director |
| Anne Maxwell | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Lillian Walker | |
| Evart Overton | |
| Frank Currier | |
| Lillian Burns |
