Little Annie Rooney

Little Annie Rooney is a 1925 silent film about a tough young ragamuffin named Annie Rooney, who lives in the tenements among an international community, but their neighborhood may be threatened by a dangerous street gang. A romping rollicking story with more laughs than you ever had in one setting! (taglines)

Title card

 * Up town a gang calls itself "Society" -- down town a gang calls itself a "Gang" and lets it go at that - Let's go down town!


 * Abie Levy was not allowed to fight because it was a holiday.


 * The "Big Kellys" - whose hardest work was selling tickets to a dance for the benefit of their bail fund.


 * To end a fight some one must quit - - but in this case both leaders happened to be Irish.

Little Annie Rooney

 * You pug-nosed Mick -- I'll knock your block off for that.


 * Why, Daddy, dear, you don't think I would do anything like that - do you, Daddy dear?

Mickey

 * It ain't no fun fightin' a girl! C'mon, le'ts go home!

Others

 * Spider: G'wan, Tim Rooney, I don't shake hands with no cop's son!


 * Chubby Kid: Now we're gonna have the real show with a genuwine horse - anybody what don't like it will get a bust on the beezer!

Dialogue

 * Joe Kelley: Shame on you - fightin' a girl!
 * Mickey: She ain't no girl - she's a wildcat!


 * Little Annie Rooney: Doctor, is he going to die?
 * Young Hospital Intern: It's an emergency case. Immediate blood transfusion might save him.
 * Little Annie Rooney: What does that mean, Mister?
 * Reporter: It means that someone will have to give their blood to save his life - right away.
 * Little Annie Rooney: Doctor, please let me do it, please!
 * Young Hospital Intern: I'm afraid you're too small.
 * Little Annie Rooney: But, if he dies, they'll put my brother in jail! My brother shot him.
 * Reporter: Why not take her? It's either that or let him croak. Besides - it will make a peach of a story.


 * Little Annie Rooney: Say, Doc, this transformation business don't make us brother and sister, does it?
 * Surgeon: No. Why?
 * Little Annie Rooney: Cause when I grow up I might wanna marry him.

Taglines

 * OUR MARY - As you like her best---a broth of a brat ready to fight at the drop of a hat---and drop the hat!
 * A romping rollicking story with more laughs than you ever had in one setting!

Cast

 * Mary Pickford - Little Annie Rooney
 * William Haines - Joe Kelly
 * Walter James - Officer Rooney
 * Gordon Griffith - Tim Rooney
 * Carlo Schipa - Tony
 * Spec O'Donnell - Abie
 * Hugh Fay - Spider
 * Vola Vale - Mamie
 * Joe Butterworth - Mickey
 * Oscar Rudolph - Athos
 * Eugene Jackson - Humidor