The Gold Diggers (1923 film)
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Director Harry Beaumont Story by Avery Hopwood Duration | 5/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Produced by David Belasco Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language Silent
English intertitles Release date September 22, 1923 (1923-09-22) Based on The Gold Diggers
by Avery Hopwood Writer Grant Carpenter, Avery Hopwood (play) Cast Hope Hampton , Wyndham Standing , Louise Fazenda , John Harron , Anne Cornwall Similar movies Related Harry Beaumont movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Gold Diggers is a lost Warner Bros. silent film directed by Harry Beaumont with screenplay by Grant Carpenter based on the play The Gold Diggers by Avery Hopwood which ran for 282 performances on Broadway in 1919 and 1920. Both the play and the film were produced by David Belasco. The film stars Hope Hampton, Wyndham Standing, and Louise Fazenda. It was also the (uncredited) film debut of Louise Beavers.
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The story of The Gold Diggers was filmed again as a talkie in 1929 as Gold Diggers of Broadway, which is now lost, and also in 1933 as Gold Diggers of 1933, with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley. Three other sequels followed: Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935), Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936), and Gold Diggers in Paris (1938).
Plot
Wally Saunders (Johnny Harron) wants to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne (Anne Cornwall), but his uncle, Stephen Lee (Wyndham Standing) thinks that all chorines are gold diggers (people who date others to get money from them) and refuses to give his approval. Violet's friend Jerry La Mar (Hope Hampton) is not a gold digger, but she agrees to go after Lee so aggressively that Violet will look tame by comparison. Of course, the uncle and the friend fall in love and get married, even after he knows the truth about her, and he gives permission for Wally and Violet to get hitched too.
Preservation status
This film is now lost. No copies of The Gold Diggers are known to exist.
References
The Gold Diggers (1923 film) WikipediaThe Gold Diggers (1923 film) IMDb