The Girl Who Wouldn't Work

The Girl Who Wouldn't Work

Drama | Aug. 18, 1925

Mary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she flirts with him and is fired. Because she is mad at her fiancé, William Norworth, Mary takes off in Kent's car and she doesn't come home until the early hours. Her father is furious and slaps her, so she leaves home. Kent offers to let her stay in his apartment, while he sleeps at the club.

The Girl Who Wouldn't Work

Drama | Aug. 18, 1925

The Girl Who Wouldn't Work
Mary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she flirts with him and is fired. Because she is mad at her fiancé, William Norworth, Mary takes off in Kent's car and she doesn't come home until the early hours. Her father is furious and slaps her, so she leaves home. Kent offers to let her stay in his apartment, while he sleeps at the club.
Producers B.P. Schulberg Productions
Original title The Girl Who Wouldn't Work
Directors Marcel De Sano
Writers Gertrude Wentworth-James, Lois Hutchinson

Cast

Lionel Barrymore

as Gordon Kent

Marguerite De La Motte

as Mary Hale

Henry B. Walthall

as William Hale

Lilyan Tashman

as Greta Verlaine

Forrest Stanley

as William Norworth

Winter Hall

as District Attorney

Tom Ricketts

as The Rounder (as Thomas Ricketts)