- A simple country girl comes to the big city and is taken advantage of by unscrupulous city-slickers.
- Country girl Mary Ellen dreams of living in the big city. She hops a train and heads to New York where she finds life less than glamorous working in a sleazy cabaret. Her dodgy boss 'Will the Weasel' frames her to commit a robbery, but Mary Ellen alerts the intended victim, Bob, whom she has fallen in love with. The police arrive and arrest Will while Mary Ellen and Bob quickly marry and happily return to her home town.—Pamela Short
- Mary Ellen is a stage-struck girl, who works at a soda fountain in a small southern town. She spends most of her time daydreaming, and watching the New York train go by. One day the train is brought to a halt by a cow on the tracks. During the delay, a famous actress alights from the train, and Mary Ellen asks her to give her a card to a theatrical agency. She then convinces her mother to let her go to New York and achieve fame. She boards the train, and meets Bob Fairacres, who has just returned from the army. When the train arrives in the city, Mary Ellen gets a job as a singer in a seedy cabaret, which turns out to be a front for the manager's criminal activities. The manager, known as "Will the Weasel," cooks up a scheme to rob Bob. He entraps Mary Ellen into his plan by implicating her in a fake robbery. But at the last moment, Mary Ellen, who has fallen for Bob, refuses to go along with the game, and turns the tables on the Weasel. Mary Ellen and Bob get married, and return to her hometown.—scsu1975
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By what name was Mary Ellen Comes to Town (1920) officially released in Canada in English?
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