to help realize her story, pickford hired some of the top-tier talent of the day: husband-and-wife screenwriting team hope loring and louis lighton, who also wrote "wings" and "it", adapted the story for the screen; charles rosher, who would later win an academy award for "sunrise", served as the film's cinematographer; william beaudine, who had found much success working with children in films like "boy of mine" and "penrod and sam", was chosen by pickford to direct.