Everybody's Sweetheart (1920)

Plot Summary

When the benign headmistress of the county poor farm is discharged and replaced with a tyrant, John and Mary, two orphans who have lived there since infancy, decide to run away. Accompanied by a feeble old corporal from the farm, they are forced to seek refuge at the home of General Phillip Bingham when the old soldier becomes ill. After the corporal's death, the general promises to care for the two waifs. Mary becomes his protegee, and John his gardener. Friction develops between the two newcomers and Willing and his wife Jessica, a couple living with the general who hope to inherit his wealth, until one day the general notices a close resemblance between a portrait of his deceased son and John. It is discovered then that John is actually the general's grandson. Thus legitimized, John weds Mary, and the general is pleased with his newly acquired family.

Full Cast & Characters

Olive Thomas

Mary

William Collier Jr.

John

Joseph J. Dowling

General Phillip Bingham

Walt Whitman

The Corporal

Aileen Manning

Sophia Treadwell

Martha Mattox

Mrs. Reese

Hal Wilson

Alabama Joe

Bob Hick

Mr. Reese

Director & Crew

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