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The Custard Cup

"A New Happy Type of Story BRIGHT AS SUNSHINE! HAPPY AS BLUEBIRDS!"

Mrs. Penfield, better known as Penzie, is one of the inhabitants of a tenement neighborhood known as "the Custard Cup" because of its oval shape. Penzie is a widow who lost both her husband and son in the influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1919. She has found fulfillment by taking in three orphans. One of the Custard Cup's other residents is a counterfeiter, and when the police are too hot on his trail, he leaves a package with Penzie and sets a boat aflame when he tries to destroy some phony bills. When the gang is rounded up, Penzie -- who has been looking for one of her adopted children -- is found at the hideout and arrested.

Top Cast

  • Mary Carr

    Mary Carr

    Mrs. Penfield

  • Myrta Bonillas

    Myrta Bonillas

    Gussie Bosley

  • Miriam Battista

    Miriam Battista

    Lettie

  • Jerry Devine

    Jerry Devine

    Crink

  • Ernest McKay

    Ernest McKay

    Thad

  • Peggy Shaw

    Peggy Shaw

    Lorene Percy

  • Lisle Leigh

    Lisle Leigh

    Mrs. Percy

  • Fred Esmelton

    Fred Esmelton

    Jeremiah Winston

  • Henry Sedley

    Henry Sedley

    Frank Bosley

Overview

Mrs. Penfield, better known as Penzie, is one of the inhabitants of a tenement neighborhood known as "the Custard Cup" because of its oval shape. Penzie is a widow who lost both her husband and son in the influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1919. She has found fulfillment by taking in three orphans. One of the Custard Cup's other residents is a counterfeiter, and when the police are too hot on his trail, he leaves a package with Penzie and sets a boat aflame when he tries to destroy some phony bills. When the gang is rounded up, Penzie -- who has been looking for one of her adopted children -- is found at the hideout and arrested.

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