Little Miss Optimist is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Robert Thornby and written by Gardner Hunting.

[1][2] As described in a film magazine,[3] when the foster mother of Mazie-Rosie Carden (Martin) marries, she is forced to find another home.

On Sunday, she is forced to hide in the pulpit and from here she is able to identify the killer through a much damaged coin West had on his person at the time of his murder.

She discovers that she is loved by a young man whom she befriended when he first came to the town, and like a fairy tale they live happily ever after.

The Chicago Board of Censors cut two views of a stamp (the board always cut close-ups of envelopes), and scenes of the murder striking man on his head with a bronze, man striking Carden with the bronze, and two theft scenes.