“A story of a girl who takes a hand in politics when the men folks fail to manage to her liking.”
Babs Marvin loves David Darrow, a young lawyer. Babs' father, the powerful Senator Marvin, is supporting Eben Sprague for a seat in the State Legislature. Darrow discovers that Sprague is a crook and threatens to expose the candidate unless the senator agrees to switch his support to him. Babs opposes Darrow's decision, fearing that it will ruin his promising law career. Determined to defeat Darrow, she promotes the candidacy of the village pauper, Hank Dawes, and contrives an elaborate campaign based upon the slogan that Dawes' election would remove him from the welfare rolls. Dawes wins the election, but Darrow is consoled with Babs's love and the senator's support of his law career.
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Corinne Griffith
Barbara Marvin
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George Fawcett
Senator Merrill Treadwill Marvin
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Webster Campbell
David Darrow
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William Holden
Ben Cogswell
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Roy Applegate
Jabez Prouty
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Charles S. Abbe
Henry Dawes
Also in
Cappy Ricks
The Bishop's Candlesticks
Blanche Davenport
Aunt Celia
Also in
The Miracle of Love
If Women Only Knew
Harvey A. Fisher
Shackleton Hobbs
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Walter Horton
Eben Sprague
Also in
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Thin Ice
Wes Jenkins
Old Eph
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Frances Miller
Mamie
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Edward H. Griffith Director · Lucien Hubbard Writer Forrest Crissey Writer
United States release July 5, 1920 · Produced in United States · Languages English, No dialogue
Production
Corinne Griffith Productions
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Vitagraph Company of America
Production
United States
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Gumshoes 4-B
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · No dialogue
Release dates
United States · July 5, 1920
Theatrical
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