Her Winning Way
{{short description|1921 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Her Winning Way
| image = Her Winning Way (1921) - 2.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Advertisement
| director = Joseph Henabery
| producer =
| screenplay = Douglas Z. Doty
| based_on = {{basedon|Ann Annington|Edgar Jepson}}
{{basedon|Ann|Lechmere Worrall}}
| starring = Mary Miles Minter
Gaston Glass
| music =
| cinematography = Faxon M. Dean
| editing =
| studio = Realart Pictures Corporation
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1921|9|}}
| runtime = 5 reels
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Her Winning Way is a silent comedy film directed by Joseph Henabery and starring Mary Miles Minter. The screenplay was written by Douglas Z. Doty, based upon the novel Ann Annington by Edgar Jepson and the play Ann by Lechmere Worrall.{{cite journal |title=Minter in "Ann Annington" |journal=Motion Picture News |volume=24 |issue=11 |page=[https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew24moti_6/page/1220] |publisher=Motion Picture News, Inc. |location=New York City |date=September 3, 1921 |url= https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew24moti_6 }} As with many of Minter's features, it is thought to be a lost film.[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6117/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Her Winning Way]
Plot
File:Her Winning Way (SAYRE 14164).jpg
As described in various film magazine reviews,{{cite journal |title=Reviews: Her Winning Way |journal=Wid's Daily |volume=17 |issue=85 |page=21 |publisher=Wid’s Film and Film Folks inc |location=New York |date=September 25, 1921 |url=https://archive.org/details/widsfilmdomjulse17wids/page/n371}}{{cite journal |title=The Complete Plan Book: Her Winning Way |journal=Motion Picture News |volume=24 |issue=15 |page=[https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew24moti_6/page/1788] |publisher=Motion Picture News, Inc. |location=New York City |date=October 1, 1921 |url= https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew24moti_6 }}{{cite journal |title=Newest Reviews and Comments: Her Winning Way |journal=Moving Picture World |volume=52 |issue=5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/movpicwor522movi/page/576] |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Company |location=New York City |date=October 1, 1921 |url= https://archive.org/details/movpicwor522movi }}{{cite journal |title=Reviews: Mary Miles Minter in Her Winning Way |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=13 |issue=14 |page=[https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald13exhi_0/page/n75] |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Co. |location=Chicago |date=October 1, 1921 |url= https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald13exhi_0 }} Ann Annington (Minter) is a book reviewer working for a magazine publishing firm, who send her to interview author Harold Hargrave (Glass). Hargrave is notoriously reticent and refuses the interview, so Ann decides to obtain the necessary information by other means.
Dressing up as a maid, Ann obtains a position in Hargrave's apartment and sets about seducing him, even suggesting that he kiss her in order to be able to write about romance more convincingly. She begins to find out the details that her publishing company wants to know, but she also finds out that she is falling in love with Hargrave.
Ann discovers that Hargrave's mother (Dunbar) is pushing him into a marriage with Evangeline (Morse), an intellectual but plain young woman. To save him from this unwanted marriage, Ann plants certain items of scanty feminine attire about Hargrave's bedroom, and when Evangeline finds these she promptly calls off the engagement. Ann's suitor Lloyd (Goodwins) also ends his relationship with her due to her evident feelings for Hargrave.
Hargrave learns of Ann's role at the paper, and, knowing that she is responsible for the end of his engagement, demands that she leave his premises. However, when he returns, she is still there. When she promises not to publish the information she has obtained about his private life, and convinces him of her true feelings, he forgives her, and all ends happily.
Cast
- Mary Miles Minter as Ann Annington
- Gaston Glass as Harold Hargrave
- Carrie Clark Ward as Nora
- Fred Goodwins as Sylvester Lloyd
- Helen Dunbar as Mrs. Hargrave
- Grace Morse as Evangeline
- John Elliott as Mallon
- Omar Whitehead as Dr. Claude Gravat
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Her Winning Way}}
- {{IMDb title|0125138}}
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:Silent American comedy films
Category:Lost American comedy films
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Films directed by Joseph Henabery
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:English-language comedy films
Category:Lost silent American films
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