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How Could You, Jean? is a 1918 American silent comedydrama film, starring Mary Pickford, directed by William Desmond Taylor, and based on a novel by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd. Casson Ferguson was the male lead Spottiswoode Aitken and a young ZaSu Pitts had supporting roles.

The plot involves a young socialite pretending to be a cook, who falls in love with a man she thinks is a hired hand, but he is actually a millionaire. The film was not well received by critics, who generally found it pleasant but dull, although the New York Times called it a funny, extremely wellproduced comedy.A novel by Norwegian writer Sigrid Boo, Vi som gr kjkkenveien We Who Enter Through the Kitchen has an almost identical plot to Brainerds original book. Boos novel was adapted for the American film Servants Entrance 1934 starring Janet Gaynor, which had an identical plot to the 1918 film. As the New York Times commented, apparently, the old Pickford comedy was already forgotten, and no copyright infringement suit was filed. ........

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