Item Details:

THROUGH THE BACK DOOR

MARY PICKFORD

GOLDEN AGE OF SILENT CINEMA, 1921

Original Movie Poster Window Card

Publisher: United Artists

Stone Lithograph

Size: 14.0 x 22 in; 35.56 x 55.88 cm

Signed: unsigned

In turn-of-the-century Belgium, a young widow (Gertrude Astor) remarries to a wealthy American, and is forced to leave her young daughter Jeanne (Mary Pickford) behind with the child's nurse (Helen Raymond). The mother returns several years later but the nurse, not wanting to give up custody, tells her Jeanne is dead. However, when Belgium is invaded in 1914, the nurse fears for the child's safety and sends the now-teenaged girl to America to reunite with her mother. A well-mounted production, one of only two films to be co-directed by her brother Jack, this features many of the elements that Pickford often used in her films.

Private Collection