
The Follies Girl 1919
"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
Doll

Wallace MacDonald
Ned

William V. Mong
Edward Woodruff

Claire McDowell
Nina

Lee Phelps
Basil

Raymond Griffith
Fredric
J.P. Wild
Swann