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Why Girls Go Back Home

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Country
  
United States

Director
  
James Flood

Why Girls Go Back Home movie poster

Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Writer
  
Walter Morosco
,
Sonya Hovey

Release date
  
March 1, 1926 (1926-03-01)

Why Girls Go Back Home is a lost 1926 silent film comedy produced and distributed by Warner Bros. James Flood directed and Patsy Ruth Miller and Clive Brook starred. Myrna Loy has a feature role. The film is a sequel to Warner Bros.'s 1921 Why Girls Leave Home, which was a box office hit.

Contents

Why Girls Go Back Home A Story of the Stage Based on the Motion

Plot

Marie Downey (Patsy Ruth Miller), a trusting country girl falls in love with a touring stage-actor, Clifford Dudley (Clive Brook) as his touring troupe takes up residence in the hotel run by Marie's father. Both lovestruck and stagestruck, Marie follows Clifford to old Broadway, where she ends up getting a job as a chorus girl. She tries desperately to get in touch with Clifford, but he acts as if he does not even know she's alive as he becomes a matinée idol on Broadway. Thanks to a lucky break, Marie becomes the star of the show in which she is appearing, whereupon Clifford finally acknowledges her existence. This time, however, she gives Clifford the cold shoulder then turns her back on New York and heads home (hence the title). Clifford follows her on the train, setting the stage for a tender reconciliation.

Cast

  • Patsy Ruth Miller as Marie Downey
  • Clive Brook as Clifford Dudley
  • Jane Winton as Model
  • Myrna Loy as Sally Short
  • George O'Hara as John Ross
  • Joseph J. Dowling as Joe Downey
  • Virginia Ainsworth as Crook in Badger Game
  • Brooks Benedict as Crook in Badger Game
  • Herbert Prior as Crook in Badger Game
  • Preservation status

    This film is now lost. Warner Bros. records of the film's negative have a notation, "Junked 12/27/48" (i.e., December 27, 1948). Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to nitrate film pre-1933 decomposition. No copies of Why Girls Go Back Home are known to exist.

    References

    Why Girls Go Back Home Wikipedia
    Why Girls Go Back Home themoviedb.org Why Girls Go Back Home IMDb