The Gaiety Girl (film)
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Genre Drama, Romance Distributor Universal Studios | Director King Baggot Cinematography Charles J. Stumar Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent
English intertitles Release date July 31, 1924 (1924-07-31) Writer Frank S. Beresford (adaptation), Melville W. Brown (adaptation), Bernard McConville, I.A.R. Wylie (story) Genres Drama, Silent film, Black-and-white Cast William Haines , Mary Philbin , Joseph J Dowling Similar movies The Hand (1981), Tough Guys (1986), Tumbleweeds (1925), Craigs Wife (1936), Traffic in Souls (1913) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Gaiety Girl is a lost 1924 silent romantic film directed by King Baggot.
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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.
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