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A Girl's Folly

191765 minUnited States
ComedyDrama
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
57:46
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Maurice Tourneur · Public domain

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Synopsis

A country girl meets a film actor and follows him to the city, expecting to become a screen star. A failed test leaves her embarrassed to return home after the success she has described in letters. Accepting the actor's help draws her into a social world whose attractions become harder to separate from its demands on her.

Cast

DirectorsMaurice Tourneur

Behind the scenes

Tourneur filmed behind the scenes at the Paragon studio in Fort Lee, showing sets, processing facilities and other work areas. The production offers an unusual contemporary view of filmmaking before Hollywood became the industry's dominant center.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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  • Robert Warwick — film screenshot (Cardinal Pictures / United Artists) · Public domain
  • Doris Kenyon — Bain News Service; This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.33996 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain

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