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Cinematography
  
James Van Trees

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Director
  
John Francis Dillon

Genre
  
Drama

Distributor
  
First National

Country
  
United States

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Cast
  
Dorothy Mackaill

Release date
  
March 3, 1929 (1929-03-03)

Writer
  
Adelaide Heilbron, Paul Perez (titles), Cornell Woolrich (story)

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Children of the Ritz is a 1929 drama film from First National Pictures. Starring Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall.

Contents

The movie was silent with its own Vitaphone soundtrack and sound effects recorded on Vitaphone phonographic records, and may have been released in dual silent and sound versions. The plot is based on a Cornell Woolrich story.

Plot

A spoiled rich girl falls for a poor chauffeur. Their situations are changed when her family loses all their money and he wins $50,000 at a racetrack. They get married, but it's not long before she starts spending their money the way she used to spend hers.

Preservation status

Children of the Ritz is now considered a lost film.

References

Children of the Ritz Wikipedia
Children of the Ritz IMDb Children of the Ritz themoviedb.org