The Follies Girl Poster

The Follies Girl 1919

50 minπŸ“… 1919-04-27

"A delightful comedy-drama of footlights, fortunes, and felony."

Overview

The relatives of dying Edward Woodruff, Nina Leffingwell, her brother Frederic, and her cousin Basil, whom she wants to marry, scheme to inherit Woodruff's wealth. Since Woodruff continually calls for an imagined granddaughter, the child of his daughter who died before they could patch up a quarrel which estranged them, Nina gets Doll, a Follies girl, to impersonate the granddaughter, try to endear herself to Woodruff, and thus inherit the money. Doll would then be paid off and the relatives wou

Director: John Francis Dillon

Cast

Olive Thomas
Olive Thomas
Doll
Wallace MacDonald
Wallace MacDonald
Ned
William V. Mong
William V. Mong
Edward Woodruff
Claire McDowell
Claire McDowell
Nina
Lee Phelps
Lee Phelps
Basil
Raymond Griffith
Raymond Griffith
Fredric
J.P. Wild
Swann