Teddy and Peggy are discovered working on the farm, but they are soon fired and leave for the city. Here a rich uncle is expecting his niece, and Baby Peggy is mistaken for the little heiress.


The first time I saw Peggy’s boots—scuffed, toe-out, practically exhaling soil—step onto the marble checkered like a chessboard for millionaires, I felt the whole American myth crack in half. Alfred J. Goulding’s 1923 one-reeler Get-Rich-Quick Peggy (now glowering in a 2K restoration on digital) is only twenty-odd min...

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" The first time I saw Peggy’s boots—scuffed, toe-out, practically exhaling soil—step onto the marble checkered like a chessboard for millionaires, I felt the whole American myth crack in half. Alfred J. Goulding’s 1923 one-reeler Get-Rich-Quick Peggy (now glowering in a 2K restoration on digital) is only twenty-odd minutes, yet it sutures together agrarian grit and metropolitan gloss with stitches so tight you can still smell the barnyard on the silk. Mistaken-identity comedies were the bread-a..."
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