Overview

Shirley Jones starred on Broadway as Maggie Flynn, an open-hearted Irish young woman who runs a home on New York's Lower East Side for black children orphaned by the Civil War. She is fond of a Union officer and is about to wed, when out of the past wanders her wayward actor-husband Phineas, who left her to play Shakespeare and has now returned as a vagabond clown. As the war closes in, Confederate insurgents run guns into the city as the violence escalates. In a rip roaring finale, tempers flare, riots are quelled and true love finds its way to the heart of Maggie Flynn.