The Joy Girl

1927 film by Allan Dwan

  • September 3, 1927 (1927-09-03)
Running time
70 minutesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

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]

Plot

Jewel 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]

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Cast

  • 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

Location 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

A print of The Joy Girl with Czech intertitles is held at the Museum of Modern Art.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Joy Girl at silentera.com
  2. ^ TCM Database
  3. ^ "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 ...
  4. ^ Haines, p. 8
  5. ^ "Joy Girl". memory.loc.gov. 1927. Retrieved June 6, 2017.

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