Why Girls Leave Home (1921 film)
{{short description|1921 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{infobox film
| name = Why Girls Leave Home
| image = Why Girls Leave Home (1921) - 2 crop.jpg
| caption = Newspaper advertisement
| director = William Nigh
| producer = Harry Rapf
| writer = William Nigh
| starring = Anna Q. Nilsson
| music =
| cinematography = John W. Brown
| editing =
| studio = Harry Rapf Productions
| distributor = Warner Bros.
| released = {{Film date|1921|7||US}}{{AFI film|13296}}
| runtime = 70-80 minutes (7-8 reels)
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget = $45,000{{cite journal|first=H Mark |last=Glancy |title=Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger |journal=Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television |volume=15 |year=1995|pages=55–73 |doi=10.1080/01439689500260031 }}Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 1 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
| gross = $450,000 (worldwide rentals)
}}
Why Girls Leave Home is a lost[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10600/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Why Girls Leave Home] 1921 American silent drama film produced by Harry Rapf for Warner Bros.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/W/WhyGirlsLeaveHome1921.html Progressive Silent Film List: Why Girls Leave Home] at silentera.com It was the only film from the studio to make a profit in 1921.{{cite book|last=Bachmann|first=Gregg|title=American Silent Film: Discovering Marginalized Voices|page=220|publisher=SIU Press|year=2002|isbn=9780809324019}} The poster for the film was featured in the 1962 film Gypsy.The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1921
Why Girls Go Back Home (1926) is a sequel to the film that was also produced by Warner Bros.
Plot
Mr. Hedder (George Lessey) is an old fashioned man who will not let his daughter Anna (Anna Q. Nilsson) own an evening gown, but she is given one by a friend who is a model. Hedder believes that she stole it and confers with Mr. Wallace (Claude King), the owner of the store. On Wallace's advice, Hedder hits Anna, causing her to leave home and move in with some gold diggers. She discovers that Wallace is a lenient father, and his daughter, Madeline (Maurine Powers) frequents less-than-reputable nightclubs, and is also the pawn of Mr. Reynolds (Coit Albertson), who is dating her for business reasons. Anna discovers Madeline alone in Anna's apartment and uses this to get back at Wallace. She eventually sends Madeline home, and the two fathers reconcile with their daughters.
Cast
- Anna Q. Nilsson as Anna Hedder
- Maurine Powers as Madeline Wallace
- Julia Swayne Gordon as Mrs. Wallace
- Corinne Barker as Ethel, a gold digger
- Katherine Perry as Edith, a gold digger
- Kate Blancke as Mrs. Hedder
- Claude King as Mr. Wallace
- Coit Albertson as Mr. Reynolds
- George Lessey as Mr. Hedder
- John B. O'Brien as Joseph
- Dan Mason as Dodo
- Arthur Gordini as Mr. Jackson
Box office
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 Leave Home are known to exist.
References
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External links
{{commons category|Why Girls Leave Home}}
- {{AFI film|13296}}
- {{IMDb title|0012846}}
{{William Nigh}}
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:English-language drama films
Category:Films directed by William Nigh
Category:Films produced by Harry Rapf
Category:Lost American drama films