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A Girl's Folly
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Wikipedia article
'A Girl's Folly' is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Robert Warwick, Doris Kenyon, June Elvidge, Jane Adair, Chester Barnett, and Johnny Hines.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/G/GirlsFolly1917.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'A Girl's Folly'] Tourneur also played the director for the film within the film.
Plot
A young girl, who wants more from the environment of her small town, comes across a film crew shooting a western. When the leading man she befriends encourages her to become an actress, she moves to the big city. However, things do not turn out quite the way she planned.
Cast
Production
Several scenes in the film show areas of the Paragon Films studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, including the film lab, editing room, printing plant, spray chamber, cafeteria, dressing rooms, and film sets.
Preservation
Prints of 'A Girl's Folly' in various grades of completeness are held in several film archives including the Cineteca Del Friuli (Gemona), BFI National Archive, George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection, UCLA Film and Television Archive, and Library of Congress,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.865/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: 'A Girl's Folly'] with a complete copy donated from a private collection to the American Film Institute and Library of Congress in 1972. An incomplete print was also found in 1978 in the Dawson Film Find preserved by permafrost.[https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/film-video-sound-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=43923 Library and Archives Canada, Dawson Film Find: 'A Girl's Folly']
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