Twinkletoes (1926)

Twinkletoes Minasi wants to be a great dancer like her deceased mother Twink meets Chuck Lightfoot a noted prizefighter who falls in love with her at first sight She tries to avoid falling in love with Chuck whose wife Cissie is a drunken harridan and more than a little bit spiteful Meanwhile Twink has secured a job in a singingdancing act in a Limehouse theater under the auspices of Roseleaf who has more than just a protective interest in the girl The jealous Cissie discovers that Twinks signpainting father also has a night job as a burglar and she turns him into the police While a big success dancing on the stage the arrest of her father has left her somewhat down in the dumps and she decides to toss herself into the Thames Possibly the nowfree Chuck since Cissie has been killed in an accident might come along and rescue her