Twinkletoes is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Colleen Moore.

[1] Monica "Twinkletoes" Minasi, a motherless child of the London Limehouse district, is a brilliant young dancer who lives in poverty.

She saves a crowd from abuse by the police through an impromptu performance, during which she meets Chuck Lightfoot, a champion fighter and older married man whose wife, Cissie, was the cause of the ruckus.

Twinks finds herself slowly falling in love with Chuck but resists, because he is married and much older (he is in his late twenties, she might be as young as 15), but when he saves her from an attack one night she realizes that it is useless to fight her feelings.

Scenario writer Winifred Dunn did research in San Francisco's Chinatown for the atmosphere of the film.