Three Men and a Girl
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| Directed by | Marshall Neilan |
| Written by | Edward Childs Carpenter (play:The Three Bears) Eve Unsell (scenario) |
| Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky |
| Starring | Marguerite Clark Richard Barthelmess Percy Marmont Jerome Patrick |
| Cinematography | Henry Cronjager |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | March 30, 1919 |
Running time | 50 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Three Men and a Girl is a lost[1] 1919 American romantic comedy film directed by Marshall Neilan and starring Marguerite Clark. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on an off-Broadway play The Three Bears by Edward Childs Carpenter.[2][3]
Plot
As described in a film magazine,[4] Sylvia Weston (Clark) is a capricious young woman who says "I do NOT" when she leaves a rich groom at the altar. She runs away in her bridal gown to a bungalow she owns at Loon Lake, only to find it occupied by three men with grudges against women. They expel her and her old nurse to a nearby cabin and stake out a line over which the women are not to cross. One by one the three men come to love Sylvia. The two older men, thinking that she is unhappily married, propose to adopt her and provide her with some clothes other than her bridal gown and swimming suit, which is all she has at the cabin. The younger one, however, is wiser and wins her in the end.
Cast
- Marguerite Clark - Sylvia Weston
- Richard Barthelmess - Christopher Kent
- Percy Marmont - Dr. Henry Forsyth
- Jerome Patrick - Julius Vanneman
- Ida Darling - Theresa Jenkins
- Charles Craig - Dallas Hawkins
- Sidney D'Albrook - Guide
- Betty Bouton - Mrs. Julia Draper
- Maggie Fisher - Abbey (*billed Maggie H. Fisher)
References
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Three Men and a Girl
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Three Men and a Girl at silentera.com
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Three Men and a Girl
- ^ Harrison, Louis Reeves (April 12, 1919). "Reviews and Advertising Aids: Three Men and a Girl". Moving Picture World. 40 (2). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Company: 271–72. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
External links
- Three Men and a Girl at IMDb
- AllMovie.com
- Still taken during production, left to right: Richard Barthelmess, Percy Marmont, Marguerite Clark, and Jerome Patrick (University of Washington Sayre collection)