The Wicked Darling is a 1919 American silent crime film directed by Tod Browning, and starring Priscilla Dean, Wellington A. Playter and Lon Chaney as pickpocket "Stoop" Connors.

[2] The Wicked Darling was released on DVD (with translated English intertitles) in September, 2005 along with Victory, another early Lon Chaney film appearance.

A still exists showing Lon Chaney in the role of sleazy Stoop Connors, as he and a compatriot are about to kidnap the heroine.

[4][3] The wealthy Kent Mortimer (Wellington A. Playter) has been bankrupted, and while attending a dress ball with his fiancee, Adele Hoyt (Gertrude Astor), he tells her that he must sell all of his household goods to pay off his debts.

Adele immediately breaks their engagement and returns all of his gifts, except for a string of pearls which she drops on the sidewalk as she enters her cab.

Mary Stevens (Priscilla Dean), a pickpocket and thief, snatches up the pearls and flees the scene with the police in hot pursuit.

Mary helps Mortimer to walk home (he's living in a run down apartment building now), and learns that his rent is overdue and that he is about to be evicted very soon.

A perfectly wonderful love story told in a way that will make you grip your seat and hold your breath – played so you'll never, never forget it.

The entire cast cooperates with some of the best character work shown on the screen in a long time, Lon Chaney as "Stoop" and Spottiswoode Aitken as "Uncle Fadem" being especially good."