The Kid
Synopsis
The opening title reads: "A comedy with a smile--and perhaps a tear". As she leaves the charity hospital and passes a church wedding, Edna deposits her new baby with a pleading note in a limousine and goes off to commit suicide. The limo is stolen by thieves who dump the baby by a garbage can. Charlie the Tramp finds the baby and makes a home for him. Five years later Edna has become an opera star but does charity work for slum youngsters in hope of finding her boy. A doctor called by Edna discovers the note with the truth about the Kid and reports it to the authorities who come to take him away from Charlie. Before he arrives at the Orphan Asylum Charlie steals him back and takes him to a flophouse. The proprietor reads of a reward for the Kid and takes him to Edna. Charlie is later awakened by a kind policeman who reunites him with the Kid at Edna's mansion.
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Language: Silent
Year of production: 1921
Length: 40min 46sec
Country: United States
Suggested by:
Baxter Martin
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Actors:
Edna Purviance .... Mother
Jackie Coogan .... The Kid (as Jack Coogan)
Baby Hathaway .... The Kid as a baby
Carl Miller .... Artist
Granville Redmond .... His friend
May White .... Edna's maid
Tom Wilson .... Policeman
Henry Bergman .... Night shelter keeper
Charles Reisner .... Bully
Raymond Lee .... His kid brother
Lita Grey .... Flirtatious Angel (as Lillita McMurray)
Edith Wilson .... Lady with baby carriage
Baby Wilson .... Baby in carriage
Nellie Bly Baker .... Slum nurse
Albert Austin .... Man in shelter
Jack Coogan Sr. .... Pickpocket/Guest/Devil
Edgar Sherrod .... Priest
Beulah Bains .... Bride
Robert Dunbar .... Bridegroom
Kitty Bradbury .... Bride's mother
Rupert Franklin .... Bride's father/Extra in reception scene
Flora Howard .... Bridesmaid
Elsie Sindora .... Bridesmaid
Walter Lynch .... Tough cop
Dan Dillon .... Bum
Jules Hanft .... Physician
S.D. Wilcox .... Cop
Kathleen Kay .... Maid
Minnie Stearns .... Fierce woman
Frank Campeau .... Welfare officer
F. Blinn .... His assistant
John McKinnon .... Chief of Police
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