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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1147

My Best Girl

Synopsis

Stockroom worker Maggie takes an inept new employee under her wing, unaware that he is the department-store owner's son. Working under an assumed name, Joe discovers a life beyond his family's expectations. Their affection grows while his concealed identity threatens the trust on which it depends.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
78:25
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No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · United Artists / Sam Taylor · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsSam Taylor

Behind the scenes

Mary Pickford produced and starred opposite Charles Buddy Rogers in this adaptation of a Kathleen Norris story. The surviving film offers a relatively late example of Pickford's silent romantic comedy.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 15, 2026.

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