When Pollyanna is orphaned, she's sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England hometown are as ill-tempered as her aunt. But Pollyanna's incurable optimism - exemplified by her "glad game", in which she looks for the bright side of every situation - brings a change to the staid old community.

Mary Pickford
as Pollyanna Whittier

Katherine Griffith
as Aunt Polly Harrington

Howard Ralston
as Jimmy Bean

Helen Jerome Eddy
as Nancy Thing

George Berrell
as Old Tom

William Courtleigh
as John Pendleton

Herbert Prior
as Dr. Tom Chilton

Wharton James
as Rev. John Whittier

Doc Crane
as Bit Role (uncredited)

Joan Marsh
as Bit Role (uncredited)
Peter McGinn
It seems unfair to even review a movie like this. After all, I didn’t find it to be particularly entertaining and I didn’t feel the adaptation from the book was done well. That usually would translate into a low rating for a film, right? But I don’t feel it is appropriate to pan a movie that was ...