Through the Back Door

Jeanne is a girl living in Belgium. Her mother is called Louise. Louise marries a wealthy man. His name is Elton Reeves. She goes with him to America. Jeanne is left behind. The maid Marie is given charge of her. Years pass. When the war comes Jeanne sets out too. On the way she takes two orphan boys under her wing. She reaches America and finds her mother’s large house. She cannot bring herself to say who she is, so she takes work there as a maid and gets to know her mother that way. A scheme in the house forces her to tell the truth, in the ninety minute silent film with Mary Pickford, an American production Jack Pickford and Alfred E. Green finished in 1921.