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A Girl's Folly

1917 · 65 min

A gentle, nostalgic silent comedy that charms with its earnest tale of small-town dreams and big-city lessons.

Directed by
Maurice Tourneur
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Robert Warwick, Doris Kenyon, June Elvidge
Overview
A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near her home. She makes friends with the film's leading man, who encourages her to try her luck as an actress. So she leaves her small town and goes to the big city to break into the picture business. However, things don't turn out quite the way she planned.

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Directed by
Maurice Tourneur
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Robert Warwick, Doris Kenyon, June Elvidge
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • family
  • love
  • ambition
Places
  • small town
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism6
Romance4
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Maurice Tourneur
Written by
Frances Marion, Maurice Tourneur
Starring
Robert Warwick, Doris Kenyon, June Elvidge, Janet Adair, Chester Barnett, Johnny Hines, Josef von Sternberg, Maurice Tourneur
Cinematography
John van den Broek
Runtime
65 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
No Language

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