God Gave Me Twenty Cents

{{short description|1926 film}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = God Gave Me Twenty Cents

| image = Lois Moran in God Gave Me Twenty Cents - (SAYRE 13953) (cropped).jpg

| alt =

| caption = Still with Lois Moran

| director = Herbert Brenon

| producer = Jesse L. Lasky
Adolph Zukor

| based_on = God Gave Me Twenty Cents by Dixie Willson

| screenplay = Elizabeth Meehan
John Russell

| starring = Lois Moran
Lya De Putti
Jack Mulhall
William Collier, Jr.
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Leo Feodoroff
Rosa Rosanova

| music =

| cinematography = Leo Tover

| editing =

| studio = Famous Players–Lasky Corporation

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1926|11|19}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

| budget =

| gross =

}}

God Gave Me Twenty Cents is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and written by Elizabeth Meehan and John Russell. The film stars Lois Moran, Lya De Putti, Jack Mulhall, William Collier, Jr., Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Leo Feodoroff, and Rosa Rosanova. The film was released on November 20, 1926, by Paramount Pictures,{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/93369/God-Gave-Me-Twenty-Cents/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208212356/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/93369/God-Gave-Me-Twenty-Cents/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 8, 2015|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide|author=Hal Erickson|title=God-Gave-Me-Twenty-Cents - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|date=2015|access-date=February 8, 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/9403-GOD-GAVEMETWENTYCENTS|title=God Gave Me Twenty Cents|work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films|access-date=December 11, 2023}} following a gala premiere on November 19 that opened the Paramount Theatre in Manhattan.{{cite book | last=Slide | first=Anthony | year=1998 | title=The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry | url=https://archive.org/details/newhistoricaldic00slid | url-access=registration | publisher=Scarecrow Press | isbn=978-0-8108-6636-2 | page=[https://archive.org/details/newhistoricaldic00slid/page/156 156] }} It is based on the novel God Gave Me Twenty Cents by Dixie Willson, subsequently remade by Paramount British as a sound film Ebb Tide in 1932.