A City Sparrow

A City Sparrow

50 mins | Drama | Oct. 17, 1920

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.

A City Sparrow

50 mins | Drama | Oct. 17, 1920

A City Sparrow
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.
Producers Paramount, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Original title A City Sparrow
Directors Sam Wood
Writers Kate Jordan, Clara Genevieve Kennedy

Cast

Ethel Clayton

as Milly West

Walter Hiers

as Tim Ennis

Clyde Fillmore

as David Muir

Lillian Leighton

as Ma Ennis

William Boyd

as Hughie Ray

Rose Cade

as Annie

Robert Brower

as Parson Neil

Helen Jerome Eddy

as Hester Neil

Sylvia Ashton

as Mrs. Babb