Johanna Enlists

Frustrated teenage hillbilly Mary Pickford prays for a man and gets 1000 of them when a troop of hunky soldiers makes camp opposite her family's homestead in this lightweight comedy. For once, Pickford is playing a girl who has reached the age of consent instead of the overly cute 12-year-olds for which she was so popular at this point in her career. And while her natural radiance prevents Pickford from achieving the plainness for which she is aiming in the film's opening scene, ill-fated director William Desmond Taylor convincingly transforms her from gawky ingenue to desirable woman.