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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1333

Glorifying the American Girl

192996 minUnited States

Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: English
This copy runs: 96:14
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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Wikimedia Commons · Millard Webb · Public domain

Synopsis

A department-store singer pursues a place in the Ziegfeld Follies and accepts a vaudeville partnership as a route to the stage. Professional ambition brings opportunity, exploitation and a difficult separation from the man who had supported her.

Cast

Mary Eaton

Dan Healy

DirectorsJohn W. Harkrider Millard Webb

Behind the scenes

The concluding revue showcases performers including Eddie Cantor, Helen Morgan and Rudy Vallee. The restored feature preserves the Technicolor material absent from shorter black-and-white television copies.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Mary Eaton — Photoplay; https://archive.org/details/photoplay3637movi · Public domain

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