The Gaiety Girl (film)

The Gaiety Girl (film)

Infobox Film
name = The Gaiety Girl


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caption =
director = King Baggot
producer =
writer = Frank S. Beresford
Melville W. Brown
Bernard McConville
narrator =
starring = Mary Philbin
Joseph J. Dowling
William Haines
music = Sidney Jones
cinematography = Charles J. Stumar
editing =
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = July 31, 1924
runtime =
country = USA
language = Silent
English intertitles
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0014930

"The Gaiety Girl" is a 1924 romantic film directed by King Baggot.

Plot

William Tudor has a huge debt and is forced to give up his family castle. He sells it to war millionaire John Kershaw and goes to London to visit his granddaughter Irene. Meanwhile, Tudor's nephew and Irene's sweetheart Owen travels to South Africa to oversee his father's mines. Irene becomes a chorus girl at the Gaiety Theatre. Here, John's son Christopher Kershaw falls in love with her. She doesn't want to have anything to do with him, but becomes desperate after her father gets ill. She gets the message Owen has been killed in the war and agrees to marry Christopher. Right after the marriage, an alive Owen shows up at the castle. Meanwhile, a huge chandelier crashes down on Christopher's head. He is now killed, which makes Irene and Owen able to reunite. Owen buys the castle back from John and Irene's grandfather comes back to his home. [ [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/92551/Gaiety-Girl/overview New York Times] Overview (Plot)]

Cast

* Mary Philbin - Irene Tudor
* Joseph J. Dowling - William Tudor
* William Haines - Owen Tudor St. John
* Freeman Wood - Christopher 'Kit' Kershaw
* DeWitt Jennings - John Kershaw
* James O. Barrows - Juckins
* Otto Hoffman - Evan Evans
* Grace Darmond - Pansy Gale

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0014930|title=The Gaiety Girl


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