The Custard Cup

The Custard Cup (1923)

Drama

Mrs. Penfield, better known as Penzie, is one of the inhabitants of a tenement neighborhood known as "the Custard Cup" because of its oval shape. Penzie is a widow who lost both her husband and son in the influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1919. She has found fulfillment by taking in three orphans. One of the Custard Cup's other residents is a counterfeiter, and when the police are too hot on his trail, he leaves a package with Penzie and sets a boat aflame when he tries to destroy some phony bills. When the gang is rounded up, Penzie -- who has been looking for one of her adopted children -- is found at the hideout and arrested.

Director: Herbert Brenon

Casts

	Mary Carr as Mrs. Penfield
	Myrta Bonillas as Gussie Bosley
	Miriam Battista as Lettie
	Jerry Devine as Crink
	Ernest McKay as Thad
	Peggy Shaw as Lorene Percy
	Lisle Leigh as Mrs. Percy
	Fred Esmelton as Jeremiah Winston
	Henry Sedley as Frank Bosley
	Louis Hendricks as Alderman Curry
	Edward Boring as Mr. Wopple
	Emily Lorraine as Perennial Prue
	Ben Lyon as Dick Chase
	Richard Collins as Counterfeiter
	Nick Hollen as Detective

Crew