A spoiled rich girl throws a tantrum so epic it requires medical supervision in 1914.
Because her father breaks her engagement to a young man, Jane, a spoiled girl of luxury, retires to a country hospital of which her father is a director, in order to sulk and give vent to her feelings.
Acting
Ruth Stonehouse's silent-film face acting is deliciously extra.
Production
1914 location shooting at an actual sanitarium.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wallace Beery, playing the doctor here, would become MGM's highest-paid actor by the 1930s—quite the glow-up from 11-minute silent shorts.
This exemplifies the 'reforming the spoiled rich girl' narrative that dominated early cinema, reassuring audiences that wealth and bad behavior were temporary conditions curable by humble locations and humble men.
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