A Girl's Folly (1917)

1917 · Silent film · 17 min · dir. Maurice Tourneur

• Comedy

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Synopsis

A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near her home. She makes friends with the film's leading man, who encourages her to try her luck as an actress. So she leaves her small town and goes to the big city to break into the picture business. However, things don't turn out quite the way she planned.

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Details

Director

Maurice Tourneur

Writer

Frances Marion

Cinematography

John van den Broek

Studio

Paragon Films

Released

1917-02-26

Running time

17 minutes

Cast & crew

• Maurice Tourneur Director
• Robert Warwick
• Doris Kenyon
• June Elvidge
• JJanet Adair
• Chester Barnett
• Johnny Hines
• Josef von Sternberg
• Maurice Tourneur

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