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Cheerful Givers is a american film of genre Drama directed by Paul Powell released in USA on 21 april 1917 with Bessie Love
Cheerful Givers (1917)
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Add to a movie listCheerful Givers is a 1917 American silent comedy-drama film produced by the Fine Arts Film Company and distributed by Triangle Film Corporation. The film stars Bessie Love and Kenneth Harlan.
^ White Munden, Kenneth, ed. (1988). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced In the United States, Part 2. R. R. Bowker. p. 101. ISBN 0-520-06301-5.
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Judy gère les affaires de la maison qu'elle occupe avec son père, le Révérend Deady, et sa sœur cadette Abigail. Lorsque Harriet Gray, une femme d'affaires au cœur de pierre, exige le remboursement de l'hypothèque de l'orphelinat, les Deady ouvrent leur propre maison à sept des orphelins. Ce qui augmente les charges de la famille et oblige Judy à se trouver un autre travail.Actors
Bessie Love
(Judy)
Kenneth Harlan
(Horace Gray)
Josephine Crowell
(Mrs. Harriet Gray)
Spottiswoode Aitken
(Rev. John Deady)
Pauline Starke
(Abigail Deady)
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