The Five Dollar Baby
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Harry Beaumont
Director
Viola Dana
Ruth
Ralph Lewis
Ben Shapinsky
Otto Hoffman
The Solitary Kid
John Harron
Larry Donovan
Tom Mcguire
Mr. Donovan
Film Details
Release Date
Sep
4,
1922
Premiere Information
New York premiere: ca25 Jun 1922
Production Company
Metro Pictures Corp.
Distribution Company
Metro Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Synopsis
The Solitary Kid, a tramp, finds a waif, Ruth, on a doorstep with a note promising a rich reward when the child becomes eighteen. He "hocks" her for $5 with a Jewish pawnbroker, who rears her as his own daughter. When she becomes eighteen, The Solitary Kid learns that his reward is one that he will receive in heaven and tries to blackmail the pawnbroker. Ruth overhears the proposition and informs the police, The Solitary Kid is arrested, and Ruth marries an Irish youth who was her childhood sweetheart.
Director
Harry Beaumont
Director
Cast
Viola Dana
Ruth
Ralph Lewis
Ben Shapinsky
Otto Hoffman
The Solitary Kid
John Harron
Larry Donovan
Tom Mcguire
Mr. Donovan
Arthur Rankin
Bernie Riskin
Marjorie Maurice
Esther Block
Ernst Pasque
Isadore
Crew
Film Details
Release Date
Sep
4,
1922
Premiere Information
New York premiere: ca25 Jun 1922
Production Company
Metro Pictures Corp.
Distribution Company
Metro Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
