Annie-for-Spite is a 1917 silent film directed by James Kirkwood and starring Mary Miles Minter.

[2] As described in film magazines,[3][4][5] Annie Johnson (Minter) is a homely orphan girl, who works in a department store and helps a widow take care of her six children in exchange for a place to stay.

To spite her daughter-in-law, she instructs her lawyer to find the plainest little girl in the city to adopt and become her heir.

The lawyer finds Annie, freshly dismissed from the department store, and she is promptly presented to Mrs. Nottingham and adopted.

In the comforts of a rich home, and dressed in expensive clothes, Annie quickly transforms into a beauty.