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Paramount Pictures

A City Sparrow

1920 50 min English
Wubly rating 6.8

“A story that warms your heart to a happy glow”

A drama starring Ethel Clayton. Milly West (Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on stardom. She has an admirer in country boy Tim Ennis (Walter Hiers), who lives in the same boarding house as she does, but she turns down his marriage proposal. During a performance, Milly is injured and can't get her strength back to get another gig. Hughie Ray (William Boyd), a pal of Tim's, comes to town and offers to take Milly back to the country to recuperate. She takes him up on his offer and after she has been there a while he proposes. But Milly has been told that her injury makes it impossible for her to bear children; since she knows that Ray loves kids she tries to leave him.

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Sam Wood Director · Clara Genevieve Kennedy Writer

United States release October 17, 1920 · Produced in United States · Production Famous Players-Lasky Corporation

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United States · October 17, 1920

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