Moonlight Follies
{{short description|1921 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name =Moonlight Follies
| image =Moonlight Follies.jpg
| caption =
| director = King Baggot
| producer =
| writer = Percival Wilde
Andrew Percival Younger
| starring = Marie Prevost
Lionel Belmore
Marie Crisp
| music =
| cinematography = Bert Glennon
| editing =
| studio = Universal Pictures
| distributor = Universal Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1921|09|18}}
| runtime = 50 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent
English intertitles
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Moonlight Follies is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by King Baggot and starring Marie Prevost, Lionel Belmore and Marie Crisp.Munden p.523
Plot
Nan Rutledge is a young flapper who has many boys at her beck-and-call, whom she invites to midnight dances at her home. After a raucous house party, she is ordered by her father to find a husband and settle down. She immediately decides to marry the last person her father met with at random, the wealthy woman-hating Anthony Griswald. When proposed to, she accepts but then later changes her mind in front of guests. Later, Anthony abducts her and secrets her to his mountain cabin where he sends for the parson.
Cast
- Marie Prevost as Nan Rutledge
- Lionel Belmore as James Rutledge
- Marie Crisp as Cissie Hallock
- George Fisher as Rene Smythe
- Clyde Fillmore as Tony Griswold
Preservation
With no prints of Moonlight Follies located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.{{Cite web |date=2023-03-21 |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Moonlight Follies |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321012533/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7657/default.html |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=web.archive.org}}
References
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Bibliography
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0012472}}
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Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Silent American comedy films
Category:Films directed by King Baggot
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Universal Pictures films
Category:English-language comedy films
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