Mary Sharron (Susan Hayward), who must single-handedly raise her sensitive young son and oversee the family ranch after her husband is killed in an accident, hires gruff laborer Fred Carter (Stephen Boyd) to help out around the farm. Before long, local gossip Mayme Radzevitch (Barbara Nichols) spreads bawdy rumors about Frank and Mary, so the widowed mother weds her farmhand to keep the town quiet. Unfortunately, Frank's idea of tough love soon drives a wedge between Mary and her child.
Harold comes to modernize a hotel in the mill town of Punkville, while attempting to engage the interests of society belle Bebe.
The Non-Stop Kid (1918)
Bebe's father has arranged a marriage for her with Professor M.T. Noodle; when Harold learns of this he disguises himself as the Professor and gets himself involved in a disastrous tea party. The finale is the model for the Three Stooges' Micro Phonies as Harold attempts to fake singing through use of a gramophone, which works pretty well until valet Snub breaks the record and puts on another one with a female vocalist.
Ring Up the Curtain (1919)
Harold is a stagehand and Bebe is a snake dancer. The film has a facile playfulness with stage conventions, with backdrops, settings and props recast into a variety of different uses that meddle with the viewer's perspective at length.
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