A young Italian immigrant girl, uneducated and superstitious, finds an abandoned baby on the stairs of her tenement, with a note attached explaining the baby is illegitimate. A young newspaper reporter, whom the girl knows from waiting on him at the restaurant where she works, reads the note for her. But the police arrest her, at no evidence whatsoever other than possession of the baby, for kidnapping.
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Clara Williams
Naneta
Also in
Hell's Hinges
The Italian
William Desmond
Donald White
Also in
The Rawhide Terror
The Prince and Betty
Enid Willis
The Baby
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Joseph J. Dowling
Carlos Lupoli
Also in
Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Bargain
Gertrude Claire
Mother Marie
Also in
The Coward
The Cradle of Courage
Charles K. French
Pietro
Known for
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Walt Whitman
Police Magistrate
Known for
The Mark of Zorro
Reginald Barker Director · Charles E. Kaufman Cinematographer
United States release December 2, 1916 · Produced in United States · Production New York Motion Picture
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Kay-Bee Pictures
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New York Motion Picture
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United States
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Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · December 2, 1916
Theatrical
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