Through The Back Door
About Through The Back Door
In Belgium, Louise Reeves leaves her daughter Jeanne with the maid Marie and sails for America with her new husband, Elton. When Louise returns, Marie tells her the child drowned. During the German occupation Marie sends Jeanne across. Jeanne picks up two orphan boys on the way, reaches Louise's house, and asks for work as a maid instead of giving her name. Guests at the house try to fleece Elton. Jeanne says who she is, and mother and daughter are reunited.
Cast & crew
More about Through The Back Door
Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford directed. Gerald Duffy and Marion Fairfax wrote the screenplay. Mary Pickford produced and plays Jeanne. Charles Rosher photographed. United Artists released it on May 5, 1921.
Themes
Making
Pickford produced the picture and plays Jeanne from the years with Marie through the maid's disguise in Louise's American house. Rosher shot both the Belgian cottage and the mansion.
Look
Charles Rosher photographed the Belgian scenes and the American mansion where Jeanne hides as a maid.
Preservation
A print is available for viewing at the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Gertrude Astor plays Louise, Wilfred Lucas plays Elton Reeves, and Helen Raymond plays Marie.
- Jeanne Carpenter plays Jeanne at five. Peaches Jackson and Doreen Turner play the orphans Conrad and Constant. John Harron plays Billy Boy.
- Adolphe Menjou plays James Brewster and Elinor Fair plays Margaret Brewster. C. Norman Hammond plays Jacques Lanvain.
- The Belgian section is set before the war. The crossing comes after Germany occupies the country.
Scenes
- Marie tells Louise that Jeanne drowned in the river, and Louise collapses.
- Jeanne applies at her mother's house as a maid.
- She drops the disguise when the guests move to cheat Elton.
Also available
- Internet Archive (MaryPickford1921)
