The Microbe
Happy O'Brien, called "The Microbe," or "Mike" for short, a female street urchin who sells newspapers dressed as a boy to avoid harassment, is saved from arrest for fighting other newsboys in Chinatown by wealthy author DeWitt Spense. DeWitt, there to purchase drugs, is so moved by Mike's pugnacity, that he takes her to his mansion for literary inspiration. When DeWitt learns that Mike is a girl, he resolves to educate her. As Mike blossoms, DeWitt's attentions turn to love, to the dismay of Judith Winthrope, who wants to marry him, and his friend Robert Breton, who, with Judith, convinces Mike that DeWitt's writing is suffering because of her.
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Cast
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Viola Dana
Happy O'Brien, The Microbe
Also in
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
That Certain Thing
Kenneth Harlan
DeWitt Spense
Known for
The Penalty
The Corpse Vanishes
Bonnie Hill
Judith Winthrope
Known for
The Frozen North
Arthur Maude
Robert Breton
Also in
The Man from Beyond
Borrowed Plumage
Ned Norworth
Norman Slade
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Lucy Donahue
Mrs. Risden
Also in
Society Secrets
Satan and the Woman
Henry Otto Director · June Mathis Writer Henry Altimus Story
United States release July 21, 1919 · Produced in United States
Production
Metro Pictures Corporation
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · July 21, 1919
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