The story opens withinside the Ozarks wherein a distraught Pollyanna (Mary Pickford) is reassuring her father the Reverend John Whittier (Wharton James) as he dies. After his death, Pollyanna is despatched to stay on a New England plantation together along with her wealthy Aunt Polly (Katherine Griffith).
Aunt Polly is extraordinarily harsh with Pollyanna with the aid of using now no longer permitting her to talk of her father in her residence and deciding on the attic for her bedroom. She even takes Pollyanna looking for new clothes. One day whilst gambling at the plantation, Pollyanna receives in hassle with a servant girl and runs to cover in a haystack. There she meets Jimmy Bean (Howard Ralston), an orphan her age. Taking pity on him, Pollyanna is positive ultimately Aunt Polly will permit him to stay with them. So she hides him withinside the cellar. One day Aunt Polly insists on going into the cellar notwithstanding Pollyanna's pleas for worry Jimmy may be discovered. Jimmy is asleep and Pollyanna believes they are withinside the clear; till Jimmy begins offevolved shouting in his sleep, having a horrific dream approximately turnips chasing and looking to consume him. Pollyanna is amused however Aunt Polly is now no longer. After a few pleading, Aunt Polly relents and tells Pollyanna to deliver a few accurate quilts for Jimmy.
One day, as Jimmy and Pollyanna play with the opposite children, they plan to try to steal some apples from tree happiness from John Pendleton (William Cortleigh). John catches Pollyanna within the act, however, forgives her, realizing she is that the actual image of her mother, a lady he once idolized deeply, but she loved Pollyanna's father instead. He tells Pollyanna this as he shows her a painting of her mother. Meanwhile, Jimmy fights his approach in, fearing that Pollyanna is in danger. He tries to defend her but finds that everything is normal.
As Pollyanna settles in she looks to bring optimism to those she meets. She is insistent on enjoying a game her father educated her referred to as 'The Glad Game', wherever one counts the items they're glad for. She visits a previous shut-in who is purportedly grateful for nothing. Pollyanna brings on an old blind and deaf friend who plays the accordion. Upon discovering the girl is blind and deaf, the shut-in proclaims her feeling for still having her sight and hearing.
One day when a fight with Jimmy within which he 'wishes she would die, Pollyanna, heads into town. She notices a bit woman taking part in within the middle of the road, oblivious to an automobile coming. Pollyanna leaps ahead of the car, throwing the girl to safety, however in the method is hits herself. Jimmy and John each take her back to her kinswoman's place. kinswoman Polly becomes frantic and places her in her own lavish bedroom. Realizing the error of her ways, Aunt Polly declares however connected to Pollyanna she is; even giving her a kiss on the forehead, much to Pollyanna's delight.
Realizing they might have lost the limited woman forever, several succumb to her needs for them to be happy. John guarantees to adopt Jimmy the following day. kinswoman Polly refuses to call Dr. Tom, (Herbert Prior), who busts her heart years before. Pollyanna pleads to call him however she refuses, delivery to another doctor. when many days, they discover Pollyanna is unfit from the waist down. Pollyanna becomes distraught; however, Jimmy comforts her, insistence she plays the Glad Game.
Months pass and Pollyanna begins to use a wheelchair. One evening with aunty Polly, she pleads one last time for her to say Dr. Tom and aunty Polly finally relents. With the assistance of Dr. Tom, Pollyanna is eventually ready to walk again.
With the success of her walking comes the belief of her wishes. aunty Polly reunites romantically with Dr. Tom and John adopts Jimmy. One day, she asks for Jimmy and he involves wheel her around the garden. He offers Pollyanna a hoop and promptly runs off out of fear, not realizing Pollyanna is able to walk. She is worked up at the ring and blithely runs once him.
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