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.

Cast

Mary Miles Minter

Dorothy North

Ethelmary Oakland

Dorothy North, as a child

Lowell Sherman

Winfred North

Edna Holland

Mrs. Helen Stillwell

Mabel Greene

May Stillwell

Harold Meltzer

Alan Stillwell

James Riley

Harry Blake

Arthur Evers

Reverend Goodwin

Charlotte Shelby

Mrs. Goodwin

Hal Clarendon

John Armstrong

Franklin B. Coates

Robert Armstrong

Harry Blakemore

Zulu Chief