A Little Princess

The favoured status of the daughter of a wealthy widowed soldier at a school for girls is abruptly withdrawn upon his death, and she is reduced to working as a scullery maid in the school. An entertaining enough tale if you can get beyond a 25-year-old woman playing a ten-year-old child, and the way that director Marshall Neilan constantly focuses on the wonderful wonderfulness of Mary Pickford. The main story, based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, is easily outshone by a fun Arabian Nights fantasy sequence.