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A City Sparrow

A story that warms your heart to a happy glow

1920 50 minutes

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A drama starring Ethel Clayton. Milly West (Clayton) is a dancer who has her heart bent on stardom. She has an admirer in country boy Tim Ennis (Walter Hiers), who lives in the same boarding house as she does, but she turns down his marriage proposal. During a performance, Milly is injured and can't get her strength back to get another gig. Hughie Ray (William Boyd), a pal of Tim's, comes to town and offers to take Milly back to the country to recuperate. She takes him up on his offer and after she has been there a while he proposes. But Milly has been told that her injury makes it impossible for her to bear children; since she knows that Ray loves kids she tries to leave him.

Released

17th October 1920

105 years ago

Runtime

50 minutes

Finishes at 10:56pm

Directed by

Sam Wood

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Written by

Clara Genevieve Kennedy, Kate Jordan

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