Movies like The Heart of Nichette

Mlle. Nichette is a dancer, supported by a Parisian ballet and beloved by a young physician, Early in the story we see her refuse to leave the stage for his sake, and the quarrel which ensues. The young physician does a certain amount of charity work and stumbles upon the case of a small child with a low fever which may become dangerous. He warns the child's father to keep her quiet and tells the neighbors on the floor below of her condition. But the father, who is a drunken brute, drives the little one out to beg for pennies, which he uses to gratify his craving for drink. And so it happens that the little one goes to the stage door to beg for her father. Her heated imagination fastens itself upon the poster showing Mlle. Nichette and her ballet, and in the child's imagination the poster apparently comes to life and performs for her benefit. When it fades out she drops her little senseless head upon the sidewalk and there the doctor finds her. Picking her up be carries her back to her dingy tenement and finds that nothing will quiet her but the dance which she thinks she has seen. He is torn between the desire to save his little patient and his intention never to see the dancer again. His humanity wins and going to the theater he tells the dancer simply the story of the little waif's malady. Her large heart at once responds, and taking her chorus and musicians with her, she repairs to the place. They climb the dingy stairs and enter the garret room where the little one lies upon her pallet of straw, and then, beginning softly, they perform the splendid Parisian ballet for their solitary, pitiful little spectator. The little one's brain is satisfied and she soon falls into a deep, healthy sleep. Then it transpires that there was a purpose beneath all this that neither the doctor nor the dancer understood, but which brought them together and resulted in the renewal of their love story to a happy conclusion.