The Winning Girl

The Winning Girl

50 mins | Drama, Comedy | Feb. 23, 1919

Because he had previously picked the name James for his first-born, when a female arrives, Major Milligan, a well-meaning but lazy dreamer, calls his daughter Jamesina, or Jemmy for short. With the birth of her second child, Mrs. Milligan dies, and several years later, when Jemmy is about eighteen, the Major marries a widow with three children. Soon the family is deeply in debt. Jemmy gets work at a textile factory, gets jobs for the other children, and even inspires the Major to work. She falls in love with Stanley Templeton, an aviator on furlough, but because his mother disapproves, Jemmy refuses to marry him. After Stanley returns to the war, Jemmy captures a German spy in the plant who was soaking cloth for airplanes in acid. She receives a reward which allows the Milligans to pay off their mortgage. Mrs. Templeton apologizes, and when Stanley returns, she warmly approves of their engagement.

The Winning Girl

50 mins | Drama, Comedy | Feb. 23, 1919

The Winning Girl
Because he had previously picked the name James for his first-born, when a female arrives, Major Milligan, a well-meaning but lazy dreamer, calls his daughter Jamesina, or Jemmy for short. With the birth of her second child, Mrs. Milligan dies, and several years later, when Jemmy is about eighteen, the Major marries a widow with three children. Soon the family is deeply in debt. Jemmy gets work at a textile factory, gets jobs for the other children, and even inspires the Major to work. She falls in love with Stanley Templeton, an aviator on furlough, but because his mother disapproves, Jemmy refuses to marry him. After Stanley returns to the war, Jemmy captures a German spy in the plant who was soaking cloth for airplanes in acid. She receives a reward which allows the Milligans to pay off their mortgage. Mrs. Templeton apologizes, and when Stanley returns, she warmly approves of their engagement.
Producers Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Original title The Winning Girl
Directors Robert G. Vignola
Writers Will M. Ritchey

Cast

Shirley Mason

as Jemmy Milligan

Theodore Roberts

as Major Milligan

Harold Goodwin

as Jack Milligan

Lincoln Stedman

as Percy Milligan

Clara Horton

as Vivian Milligan

Jean Calhoun

as Gwendolyn Milligan

Edythe Chapman

as Second Mrs. Milligan

Niles Welch

as Stanley Templeton

Helen Dunbar

as Mrs. Templeton

Jose Melville

as Fanny Milligan