History Film / ThePoorLittleRichGirl

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When Gwen is caught having a mud fight with boys, she is forced to wear boy's clothes for the rest of the day. [[{{Unishment}} Although, Gwen doesn't really consider this a punishment and she ends up having a lot of fun in a mud fight as]] OneOfTheBoys.

* RichBitch: Contrasting Gwen's sweet and innocent wonderous nature, we have another rich girl known as Susie May who would insult Gwen's house and parents for no proper reason, act like she was bitten when she was just slapped, freak out over getting her clothes stained, etc.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When Gwen is caught having a mud fight with boys, she is forced to wear boy's clothes for the rest of the day.

* AdventuresInComaland: After the maid gives Gwen the overdose, Gwen slips into a long dream sequence in which the people she knows manifest themselves in odd ways. For example, the bitchy maid and kindly butler call each other "a silly ass" and "two-faced" respectively, so the maid shows up in the dream having literally two faces and the butler is dressed up as a donkey. Eventually she meets TheGrimReaper--interestingly, here portrayed as a woman--who promises her "eternal sleep". Gwen nearly takes her up on it until a playful [[FairyCompanion fairy spirit]] who seems to be the Grim Reaper's [[EvilCounterpart Good Counterpart]] lures Gwen back to life. She then wakes up.
* BrokenGlassPenalty: The neighborhood kids hit a baseball through the glass of Gwen's familiy's greenhouse. They go to retrieve it and wind up having a mud fight with Gwen.

* TitleDrop: Gwen is called "the poor little rich girl" several times in the title cards. Weirdly, both the neighborhood kids and Gwen herself call her that in-universe.

* CollAndUnusualPunishment: When Gwen is caught having a mud fight with boys, she is forced to wear boy's clothes for the rest of the day.

''The Poor Little Rich Girl'' was a smash hit and maintained Pickford's status as a huge movie star, probably the biggest of her day (her friend Creator/CharlieChaplin was her only real competition). It was one of the first of the DawsonCasting roles that she would later become strongly associated with (Pickford was 24 when the film was released). It was selected to the NationalFilmRegistry as typical of Pickford's work.

''The Poor Little Rich Girl'' is a 1917 film directed by Maurice Tourneur and featuring one of the biggest movie stars of her day, "America's Sweetheart", Mary Pickford. Here Pickford plays Gwendolyn, the neglected 11-year-old daughter of a high-society couple. The father is too busy trading stocks and the mother is busy improving her social standing, and neither of them pay attention to their little girl. Gwen is left to the care of the servants, who are quite mean and seem to delight in tormenting her. In return she acts out, one time throwing her fancy dresses into the street and another time wrecking a bathroom sink. Nothing succeeds in getting her parents to spend some time with her--that is, not until an abusive maid gives Gwen an overdose of a sleeping drug.

''The Poor Little Rich Girl'' is a 1917 film directed by Maurice Tourneur and featuring one of the biggest movie stars of her day, Mary Pickford. Here Pickford plays Gwendolyn, the neglected 11-year-old daughter of a high-society couple. The father is too busy trading stocks and the mother is busy with her social standing, and neither of them pay attention to their little girl. Gwen is left to the care of the servants, who are quite mean and seem to delight in tormenting her. In return she acts out, one time throwing her fancy dresses into the street and another time wrecking a bathroom sink. Nothing succeeds in getting her parents to spend some time with her--that is, not until an abusive maid gives Gwen an overdose of a sleeping drug.

''The Poor Little Rich Girl'' was a huge hit and maintained Pickford's status as a huge movie star, probably the biggest of her day (her friend Creator/CharlieChaplin was her only real competition). It was one of the first of the DawsonCasting roles that she would later become strongly associated with (Pickford was 24 when the film was released). It was selected to the NationalFilmRegistry as typical of Pickford's work.

* AdventuresInComaland: After the maid gives Gwen the overdose, Gwen slips into a long dream sequence in which the people she knows manifest themselves in odd ways. For example, the bitchy maid and kindly butler call each other "two-faced" and "a silly ass" respectively, so the maid shows up in the dream having literally two faces and the butler is dressed up as a donkey. Eventually she meets TheGrimReaper--interestingly, here portrayed as a woman--who promises her "eternal sleep". Gwen nearly takes her up on it until a playful [[FairyCompanion fairy spirit]] who seems to be the Grim Reaper's [[EvilCounterpart Good Counterpart]] lures Gwen back to life. She then wakes up.

* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: "Wuxtra! Wuxtra! Panic in Wall St.!"

* LonelyRichKid: Played completely straight, with Gwen shut up in her parents' mansion, not allowed to go out and play with the commoners. She can't even ''watch'' the local kids play, as a bitchy maid pulls down the blinds when she does.