The Joy Girl is a 1927 American two-strip Technicolor silent comedy film directed by Allan Dwan, released by Fox Film Corporation, starring Olive Borden, Neil Hamilton, and Marie Dressler, and based on the short story of the same name by May Edginton.[1]
| The Joy Girl | |
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| Directed by | Allan Dwan |
| Written by | Frances Agnew Malcolm Stuart Boylan Adele Comandini |
| Based on | The Joy Girl by May Edginton |
| Produced by | William Fox |
| Starring | Olive Borden Neil Hamilton Marie Dressler Mary Alden |
| Cinematography | William J. Miller George Webber |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Plot
editJewel Courage (Borden) rejects a suitor (Hamilton), whom she thinks is a chauffeur, in favor of a man she thinks is a millionaire. It transpires that the roles were, in fact, reversed; Hamilton is the millionaire and the other man a chauffeur. Jewel is crushed, but manages to do well for herself in business, until the real millionaire and she find themselves reconciled.[2][3]
Cast
edit- Olive Borden as Jewel Courage
- Neil Hamilton as John Jeffrey Fleet
- Marie Dressler as Mrs. Heath
- Mary Alden as Mrs. Courage
- William Norris as Herbert Courage
- Helen Chandler as Flora
- Jerry Miley as Vicary
- Frank Walsh as Hugh Sandman
- Clarence Elmer as Valet
- Peggy Kelly as Isolde
- Jimmy Grainger Jr. as Chauffeur
- Betty Byrne (uncredited)
- Ursula Fisher (uncredited)
- Edna Wilson (uncredited)
Production
editLocation filming took place in Palm Beach, Florida. Either part or all of the film was shot in Technicolor. It was the last film to be shot in the second Technicolor process ("System 2"), before the company's implementation of a new, improved format in 1928.[4]
Preservation status
editA print of The Joy Girl with Czech intertitles is held at the Museum of Modern Art.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Joy Girl at silentera.com
- ^ TCM Database
- ^ "Projection Jottings". New York Times. September 4, 1927. Retrieved December 6, 2014.
The Joy Girl, with Olive Borden, produced by Allan Dwan, is to occupy the Roxy screen this week. It is based on a story by May Edglnton. The exterior scenes ...
- ^ Haines, p. 8
- ^ "Joy Girl". memory.loc.gov. 1927. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
External links
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- The Joy Girl at IMDb
- Still at Getty Images
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