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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When Gwen is caught having a mud fight with boys, she is forced to wear boy's clothes for the rest of the day. [[{{Unishment}} Although, Gwen doesn't really consider this a punishment and she ends up having a lot of fun in a mud fight as]] OneOfTheBoys.

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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When Gwen is caught having a mud fight with boys, she is forced to wear boy's clothes for the rest of the day. Although [[{{Unishment}} Although, Gwen doesn't really consider this a punishment punishment]] and she ends up having a lot of fun in a mud fight as]] as OneOfTheBoys.


* RichBitch: Contrasting Gwen's sweet and innocent wonderous nature, we have another rich girl known as Susie May who would insult Gwen's house and parents for no proper reason, act like she was bitten when she was just slapped, freak out over getting her clothes stained, etc.

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* RichBitch: Contrasting Gwen's sweet and innocent wonderous wondrous nature, we have another rich girl known as Susie May who would insult Gwen's house and parents for no proper reason, act like she was bitten when she was just slapped, freak out over getting her clothes stained, etc.

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* RhymesOnADime: TheGrimReaper and her good fairy counterpart from the coma sequence both talk in rhyme.

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* RichBitch: Contrasting Gwen's sweet and innocent wonderous nature, we have another rich girl known as Susie May who would insult Gwen's house and parents for no proper reason, act like she was bitten when she was just slapped, freak out over getting her clothes stained, etc.


* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When Gwen is caught having a mud fight with boys, she is forced to wear boy's clothes for the rest of the day.

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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When Gwen is caught having a mud fight with boys, she is forced to wear boy's clothes for the rest of the day. [[{{Unishment}} Although, Gwen doesn't really consider this a punishment and she ends up having a lot of fun in a mud fight as]] OneOfTheBoys.


* AdventuresInComaland: After the maid gives Gwen the overdose, Gwen slips into a long dream sequence in which the people she knows manifest themselves in odd ways. For example, the bitchy maid and kindly butler call each other "a silly ass" and "two-faced" respectively, so the maid shows up in the dream having literally two faces and the butler is dressed up as a donkey. Eventually she meets TheGrimReaper--interestingly, here portrayed as a woman--who promises her "eternal sleep". Gwen nearly takes her up on it until a playful [[FairyCompanion fairy spirit]] who seems to be the Grim Reaper's [[EvilCounterpart Good Counterpart]] lures Gwen back to life. She then wakes up.
* BrokenGlassPenalty: The neighborhood kids hit a baseball through the glass of Gwen's familiy's greenhouse. They go to retrieve it and wind up having a mud fight with Gwen.

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* AdventuresInComaland: After the maid gives Gwen the overdose, Gwen slips into a long dream sequence in which the people she knows manifest themselves in odd ways. For example, the bitchy maid and kindly butler call each other "a silly ass" and "two-faced" respectively, so the maid shows up in the dream having literally two faces and the butler is dressed up as a donkey. Eventually Eventually, she meets TheGrimReaper--interestingly, here portrayed as a woman--who promises her "eternal sleep". Gwen nearly takes her up on it until a playful [[FairyCompanion fairy spirit]] who seems to be the Grim Reaper's [[EvilCounterpart Good Counterpart]] lures Gwen back to life. She then wakes up.
* BrokenGlassPenalty: The neighborhood kids hit a baseball through the glass of Gwen's familiy's family's greenhouse. They go to retrieve it and wind up having a mud fight with Gwen.



* TitleDrop: Gwen is called "the poor little rich girl" several times in the title cards. Weirdly, both the neighborhood kids and Gwen herself call her that in-universe.

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* TitleDrop: Gwen is called "the poor little rich girl" several times in the title cards. Weirdly, both the neighborhood kids and Gwen herself call her that in-universe.in-universe.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The butler is the only servant to treat Gwen with a shred of kindness.

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It was later remade with Creator/ShirleyTemple as "Poor Little Rich Girl" (without the "The").


* CollAndUnusualPunishment: When Gwen is caught having a mud fight with boys, she is forced to wear boy's clothes for the rest of the day.

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* CollAndUnusualPunishment: CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When Gwen is caught having a mud fight with boys, she is forced to wear boy's clothes for the rest of the day.

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* CollAndUnusualPunishment: When Gwen is caught having a mud fight with boys, she is forced to wear boy's clothes for the rest of the day.

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* {{Jerkass}}: Literally all the servants torment Gwen. Also they pull a KarmaHoudini, since they never get called out for this.


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* ParentalNeglect: Both parents are so involved in their own lives, they hardly notice their daughter.


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* SadistTeacher: Gwen's home tutors.
* SpoiledBrat: The socialite's daughter Gwen is forced to play with. Averted with Gwen herself.


''The Poor Little Rich Girl'' was a smash hit and maintained Pickford's status as a huge movie star, probably the biggest of her day (her friend Creator/CharlieChaplin was her only real competition). It was one of the first of the DawsonCasting roles that she would later become strongly associated with (Pickford was 24 when the film was released). It was selected to the NationalFilmRegistry as typical of Pickford's work.

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''The Poor Little Rich Girl'' was a smash hit and maintained Pickford's status as a huge movie star, probably the biggest of her day (her friend Creator/CharlieChaplin was her only real competition). It was one of the first of the DawsonCasting roles that she would later become strongly associated with (Pickford was 24 when the film was released). It was selected to the NationalFilmRegistry UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry as typical of Pickford's work.

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''The Poor Little Rich Girl'' is a 1917 film directed by Maurice Tourneur and featuring one of the biggest movie stars of her day, "America's Sweetheart", Mary Pickford. Here Pickford plays Gwendolyn, the neglected 11-year-old daughter of a high-society couple. The father is too busy trading stocks and the mother is busy improving her social standing, and neither of them pay attention to their little girl. Gwen is left to the care of the servants, who are quite mean and seem to delight in tormenting her. In return she acts out, one time throwing her fancy dresses into the street and another time wrecking a bathroom sink. Nothing succeeds in getting her parents to spend some time with her--that is, not until an abusive maid gives Gwen an overdose of a sleeping drug.

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''The Poor Little Rich Girl'' is a 1917 film directed by Maurice Tourneur and featuring one of the biggest movie stars of her day, "America's Sweetheart", Mary Pickford.Creator/MaryPickford. Here Pickford plays Gwendolyn, the neglected 11-year-old daughter of a high-society couple. The father is too busy trading stocks and the mother is busy improving her social standing, and neither of them pay attention to their little girl. Gwen is left to the care of the servants, who are quite mean and seem to delight in tormenting her. In return she acts out, one time throwing her fancy dresses into the street and another time wrecking a bathroom sink. Nothing succeeds in getting her parents to spend some time with her--that is, not until an abusive maid gives Gwen an overdose of a sleeping drug.

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