The Custard Cup
“A New Happy Type of Story BRIGHT AS SUNSHINE! HAPPY AS BLUEBIRDS!”
Mrs. Penfield, better known as Penzie, is one of the inhabitants of a tenement neighborhood known as "the Custard Cup" because of its oval shape. Penzie is a widow who lost both her husband and son in the influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1919. She has found fulfillment by taking in three orphans. One of the Custard Cup's other residents is a counterfeiter, and when the police are too hot on his trail, he leaves a package with Penzie and sets a boat aflame when he tries to destroy some phony bills. When the gang is rounded up, Penzie -- who has been looking for one of her adopted children -- is found at the hideout and arrested.
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Mary Carr
Mrs. Penfield
Known for
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Myrta Bonillas
Gussie Bosley
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Miriam Battista
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Jerry Devine
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Peggy Shaw
Lorene Percy
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Fred Esmelton
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Henry Sedley
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Herbert Brenon Director · G. Marion Burton Writer Charles E. Blaney Author
United States release January 1, 1923 · Produced in United States
Production
Fox Film Corporation
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · January 1, 1923
Theatrical
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