Let Katie Do It is a 1916 silent film drama directed by Chester and Sidney Franklin and was produced by D. W. Griffith's Fine Arts company. It is also known as Let Katy Do It.
A copy is preserved in the Library of Congress collection and UCLA Film & TV.
, 1h18 Directed bySidney Franklin OriginUSA GenresComedy, Comedy-drama ActorsMary Pickford, Kenneth Harlan, Ralph Lewis, T.D. Crittenden, Aggie Herring, Andrew Arbuckle Rating66% Spoiled Amy Burke (Mary Pickford) lives with her doting grandfather, ruthless business magnate Alexander Guthrie (Ralph Lewis), in his Fifth Avenue, New York City mansion. She is initially delighted when he offers to take her with him on a trip to Europe. However, as the day approaches for their departure, she changes her mind and decides to go live with her newly returned father, "sociological writer" John Burke (T. D. Crittenden), at Craigen Street, wherever that is. Unused to having his plans thwarted, Guthrie becomes cold to his beloved granddaughter.
Directed bySidney Franklin OriginUSA GenresComedy, Romantic comedy, Romance ActorsConstance Talmadge, Ronald Colman, Jean Hersholt, Albert Gran, Sidney Bracey, Joseph J. Dowling Rating67% American millionaire Samuel C. Adams brings his daughter Dorothy to England to see a specialist about her heart trouble. So that she will not be hounded by the press and fortune hunters, Dorothy makes herself up to look extremely plain. Impoverished Lord Paul Menford spies her without the hideous disguise and falls in love with her immediately. When he is mistaken for his uncle, the heart specialist Adams seeks, he goes along in order to meet her. Meanwhile, his agent sells the Menford family estate to Adams. When Menford finally admits the ruse, Dorothy sends him away.