Girls (1919 film)

Girls
Girls
	Random stills from film included; on a 1919 sheet-music cover.
Directed by	Walter Edwards
Written by	Clara Beranger (scenario); Alice Eyton (scenario)
Based on	Girls; by Clyde Fitch
Cinematography	Hal Young; James Van Trees
Production; company	Famous Players–Lasky
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 29, 1919;
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Girls is a 1919 American silent romantic comedy directed by Walter Edwards and starring Marguerite Clark. It is based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Clyde Fitch starring Florence Reed in the part Clark plays in this film.^[1]^[2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[3] Pamela Gordon (Clark) forms a man-haters club with her roommates Violet (Warren) and Kate (Chadwick). Edgar Holt (Ford), victim of a flirtatious married woman, takes refuge from an irate husband in the young woman's room just as the man-haters are going to bed. He is impressed with Pamela and pockets an advertisement for a position that he finds. Pamela is indignant and he escapes to another room. Later, Pamela, Holt and Wilbur Searles (Carewe) are present at the mountain home of a wealthy friend. Holt intercedes when Searles tries to make love to Pamela. While there, the pair are given a chance to become better acquainted, but Pamela is still haughty towards Holt and all men in general. Holt tells his law partner George H. Sprague (Persse) to answer Pamela's advertisement, and she is immediately given a position. Violet is also hired as a stenographer and, weakening on the man hating idea, falls in love with the head clerk. Sprague makes unwelcome advances on Pamela and she leaves, taking Violet with her. Meanwhile, Kate, the other member of the league, has secretly married her theatrical manager. Holt rents a room next to Pamela's to more easily court her. Violet announces her engagement and Kate then tells of her marriage. Holt knocks on the door but Pamela will not let him in. He goes around to a window, and, when he almost falls, Pamela drags him in with her arms around his neck. He puts his arms around her and she is compelled to admit that she loves him.

Cast

Marguerite Clark as Pamela Gordon
Mary Warren as Violet
Helene Chadwick as Kate West
Harrison Ford as Edgar Holt
Lee Hill as Frank Loot
Thomas Persse as George H. Sprague
Tom Ricketts as Mr. Dennett
Clarissa Selwynne as Mrs. Dennett
Arthur Edmund Carewe as Wilbur Searles
Virginia Foltz as Lucille
Myrtle Rishell as Nina Levering

Preservation

With no prints of Girls located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[4]^[5]

References

^ Bodeen, DeWitt (1976). From Hollywood: The Careers of 15 Great American Stars. A. S. Barnes. p. 45. ISBN 0-498-01346-4.
^ Progressive Silent Film List: Girls at silentera.com
^ "Reviews: Girls". Exhibitors Herald. 8 (3). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 53. July 12, 1919.
^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Girls
^ Nunn, William Curtis (1981). Marguerite Clark, America's Darling of Broadway and the Silent Screen. TCU Press. p. VII. ISBN 0-912646-69-1.

External links

Girls at IMDb
Girls at AllMovie
Still with Harrison Ford and Marguerite Clark (University of Washington, Sayre collection)
lantern slide(archived)

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[1] Bodeen, DeWitt (1976). From Hollywood: The Careers of 15 Great American Stars. A. S. Barnes. p. 45. ISBN 0-498-01346-4.

[2] Progressive Silent Film List: Girls at silentera.com

[3] "Reviews: Girls". Exhibitors Herald. 8 (3). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 53. July 12, 1919.

[4] The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Girls

[5] Nunn, William Curtis (1981). Marguerite Clark, America's Darling of Broadway and the Silent Screen. TCU Press. p. VII. ISBN 0-912646-69-1.

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