A Girl's Folly

A Girl's Folly

65 mins | Comedy | Feb. 26, 1917

A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near her home. She makes friends with the film's leading man, who encourages her to try her luck as an actress. So she leaves her small town and goes to the big city to break into the picture business. However, things don't turn out quite the way she planned.

A Girl's Folly

65 mins | Comedy | Feb. 26, 1917

A Girl's Folly
A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near her home. She makes friends with the film's leading man, who encourages her to try her luck as an actress. So she leaves her small town and goes to the big city to break into the picture business. However, things don't turn out quite the way she planned.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Paragon Films
Original title A Girl's Folly
Directors Maurice Tourneur
Writers Maurice Tourneur, Frances Marion

Cast

Robert Warwick

as Kenneth Driscoll

Doris Kenyon

as Mary Baker

June Elvidge

as Vivian Carleton

Janet Adair

as Mrs. Baker

Chester Barnett

as Johnny Applebloom

Johnny Hines

as Hank

Josef von Sternberg

as Cameraman (uncredited)

Maurice Tourneur

as Director (uncredited)