The Gaiety Girl (film)

The Gaiety Girl
File:The Gaiety Girl FilmPoster.jpeg Theatrical release poster
Directed by	King Baggot
Written by	Frank S. Beresford Melville W. Brown Bernard McConville
Starring	Mary Philbin Joseph J. Dowling William Haines
Music by	Sidney Jones
Cinematography	Charles J. Stumar
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	July 31, 1924 (1924-07-31)
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles

The Gaiety Girl is a lost 1924 silent romantic film directed by King Baggot.

Plot

William Tudor has a huge debt and is forced to give up his family castle. He sells it to war millionaire John Kershaw and goes to London to visit his granddaughter Irene. Meanwhile, Tudor's nephew and Irene's sweetheart Owen travels to South Africa to oversee his father's mines. Irene becomes a chorus girl at the Gaiety Theatre. Here, John's son Christopher Kershaw falls in love with her. She doesn't want to have anything to do with him, but becomes desperate after her father gets ill. She gets the message Owen has been killed in the war and agrees to marry Christopher. Right after the marriage, an alive Owen shows up at the castle. Meanwhile, a huge chandelier crashes down on Christopher's head. He is now killed, which makes Irene and Owen able to reunite. Owen buys the castle back from John and Irene's grandfather comes back to his home.

Cast

• Mary Philbin - Irene Tudor
• Joseph J. Dowling - William Tudor
• William Haines - Owen Tudor St. John
• Freeman Wood - Christopher 'Kit' Kershaw
• DeWitt Jennings - John Kershaw
• James O. Barrows - Juckins
• Otto Hoffman - Evan Evans
• Grace Darmond - Pansy Gale

External links

• The Gaiety Girl at IMDb
• The Gaiety Girl synopsis at AllMovie