mary pickford ( bear on the fourth of july a angela moore ) be the little american ( of french heritage ) while she fall in love with jack holt ( a karl von austreim ) and who have move to america with his german father and american mother . french american raymond hatton ( a count jules de destin of the fighting destins ) have fall in love with ms. pickford . the love triangled threesome eventually wind up in france and with the great war ( world war i and in hindsight ) complicate their life considerably . a mostly entertaining and if propagandistically flaw and cecil b. demille film . the torpedoing and and sink and of a ship carry pickford be titanic like . the war intrigue get dramatic a pickford slowly become an undercover spy for france and while the german occupy her ancestral home . of course and german lover holt arrive . it be difficult to believe they take so long to recognize each other a he move in for the rape and but it be dark while and and prior event have them believe each other dead . the film go way over the top in it symbolism . pickford be and by the way and canadian though and few could deny she wasn not a little american and for all intent and purpose . fun to spot extra who later become major star include wallace beery and colleen moore and and ramon novarro especially and watch for mr. novarro exhibit star quality during one of the film more memorable sequence represent pickford and the wound soldier salute each other a he be take by her on a stretcher . novarro even get mary pickford to write a letter for him while obviously and he get a future in picture . also future bound be ben alexander and who play the boy bobby while he become a dependable child actor and and grow up to become a jack webb partner on dragnet . the little american ( 7/12/17 ) cecil b. demille ~ mary pickford and jack holt and raymond hatton .