Pollyanna is a 1920 American silent melodrama/comedy film starring Mary Pickford, directed by Paul Powell, and based on Eleanor H. Porter's 1913 novel of the same name.

[2] The film opens in the Ozarks where a distraught Pollyanna (Mary Pickford) is comforting her father the Reverend John Whittier (Wharton James) as he dies.

After his death, Pollyanna is sent to live on a New England plantation with her rich Aunt Polly (Katherine Griffith).

Aunt Polly is extremely harsh with Pollyanna by not allowing her to speak of her father in her house and choosing the attic for her bedroom.

One day, while playing on the plantation, Pollyanna gets in trouble with a servant woman and runs to hide in a haystack.

One day, Aunt Polly insists on going into the cellar, despite Pollyanna's pleas for fear Jimmy will be discovered.

After some pleading, Aunt Polly relents and tells Pollyanna to bring some good quilts for Jimmy.

One day, as Jimmy and Pollyanna play with the other children, they decide to try and steal some apples from a tree belonging to John Pendleton (William Cortleigh).

Upon discovering the woman is blind and deaf, the shut-in proclaims her gratitude for still having her sight and hearing.

Pollyanna leaps in front of the car, throwing the girl to safety, but in the process is hit herself.

Aunt Polly refuses to call Dr. Tom (Herbert Prior), who broke her heart years before.