Always in the Way

Overview

Four-year-old Dorothy, the daughter of rich lawyer Winfred North, is inconsolable over her mother's recent death. Her father, too absorbed with business to pay attention to his daughter and her problems, marries Helen Stillwell, a widow with her own two children. Helen ignores Dorothy while taking care of her own children, treating Dorothy as if she's always "in the way". Finally Dorothy can take no more and runs away. She is found by the Goodwins, a married missionary couple, but when they bring her home, Helen Stillwell denies knowing Dorothy at all, seeing a chance for her own children to inherit Winfred's wealth and cut Dorothy out of the picture altogether. The Goodwins take Dorothy to Africa with them to bring Christianity to the natives, but matters don't work out quite as well as they expected.

Directed by J. Searle Dawley

Top cast

Mary Miles Minter

Dorothy North

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Ethelmary Oakland

Dorothy North, as a child

Lowell Sherman

Winfred North

Edna Holland

Mrs. Helen Stillwell

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Mabel Greene

May Stillwell

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Harold Meltzer

Alan Stillwell

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James Riley

Harry Blake

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Arthur Evers

Reverend Goodwin

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Charlotte Shelby

Mrs. Goodwin

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Hal Clarendon

John Armstrong

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Franklin B. Coates

Robert Armstrong

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Harry Blakemore

Zulu Chief

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Boots Wall

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