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Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd

Her fictional novels often follow the same formual as the Pollyanna or Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm series, in which a young girl, often an orphan, tries to improve the lives of adults through pluck and daring.


Servants' Entrance

This film was adapted from Sigrid Boo's 1930 Norwegian novel Vi som går kjøkkenveien ("We Who Enter Through the Kitchen") which has an almost identical plot to Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd's popular 1917 novel How Could You, Jean? Brainerd's novel had already been adapted into the film How Could You Jean? (1918), directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Mary Pickford.


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