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First Love

1921 · 50 min

A gentle, old-fashioned romantic comedy that drifts along pleasantly, with a naive heroine's heartbreak and a tidy happy ending.

Directed by: Maurice Campbell
Genres: Romance, Comedy
Starring: Constance Binney, Warner Baxter, George Webb

Overview: The O'Donnells are a typical, everyday family -- Tad (George Hernandez) is a sensible working man, his wife (Fannie Midgely) is a good mother and their daughter Kathleen (Constance Binney) is pretty and innocent to the point of naiveté. Kathleen works in a factory and its owner, Donald Holiday (Warner Baxter), has taken a shine to her. But instead she falls for slick cab driver Harry Stanton (George Webb), who insists, "Honest, kid, you're the only girl I ever loved." Kathleen falls for this, and when her perceptive father makes clear he doesn't approve of Stanton, she moves out on her own.

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Directed by: Maurice Campbell
Genres: Romance, Comedy
Starring: Constance Binney, Warner Baxter, George Webb

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Tone
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
betrayal
family
class
Places: big city
workplace
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	4
Realism	6
Romance	6
Tension	3
Darkness	3
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	4

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Genres: romance, comedy
Directed by: Maurice Campbell
Written by: Percy Heath, Aubrey Stauffer
Starring: Constance Binney, Warner Baxter, George Webb, Betty Schade, George Hernandez, Fanny Midgley, Edward Jobson, Agnes Adams
Runtime: 50 min
Country: United States of America

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