A Girl's Folly (1917)
William A Brady in association with WORLD PICTURES presents
ROBERT WARWICK and DORIS KENYON in
"A Girl's Folly"
Directed by Maurice Tourneur
Produced by Paragon Films Inc.
Savoy Theatre Aug. 17
STUDIO GOSSIP
One man who is seen on the screen in "A Girl's Folly" has been working in motion picture studios for the past ten years and yet this is the first time he ever acted in a play before the camera. He is one of the very efficient carpenters appearing in several of the studio scenes in this production.
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The director who acts before the camera in "A Girl's Folly" is the man who really directed this picture. He is Maurice Tourneur.
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The World Film stars had the times of their lives while "A Girl's Folly" was being filmed. This is the first time a motion picture of a movie studio has ever been made and the actors enjoyed the novelty as much as the public will enjoy this unusual picture.
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"My friends will be interested in knowing that the dressing room in which I appear in "A Girl's Folly" is really the dresing room that I used while making up for this picture and a number of others", said Robert Warwick, who plays the part of a big motion picture star in this production.
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In "A Girl's Folly" Miss Doris Kenyon takes a prt of a young girl who runs away to a movie studio. The girl is given a part in a picture and she expects it to be a wonderful production but when it is thrown on the screen at a private showing, it proves to be a flivver.
I know how it feels to wait for the first showing of the first picture in which you appear" said Miss Kenyon. "I know with what tremblings I waited for the first showing of my first picture. It was a thrill that will come only once in a lifetime to me."
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The lunch hour scene in "A Girl's Folly" is so very realistic because the scene was taken at the lunch hour when all the actors at the studio were participating in the noon day meal. No special poses were made for this picture -- outside of the acting done by the stars. Consequently the lunch room scene is an actual reproduction of the actual happenings every noon in the studio.
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"This picture ought to give hundreds of thousands of film fans a perfectly correct idea of what a movie studio looks like and the way that a picture is taken," said Maurice Tourneur, who directed the production of "A Girl's Folly."
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"It sure is a corking idea," declared Robert Warwick when told that he was to enact the role of a motion picture star in a film built around a movie studio in "A Girl's Folly"
"A GIRL'S FOLLY"
"I'm sick and tired of this stale old life," Mary Baker told herself as she looked at her unsophisticated country sweetheart, Johnny Applebaum, and thought of the splendid man of romance her fancy had conjured up. "I'd like to go away from it all."
THE MOVIE FOLK.
One day Mary was astonished and terrified by the sight of Indians crawling toward her through the underbrush. Fear-stricken, she rushed to her home. Then she saw a man on horseback tumble down a steep embankment. Mary rushed to a crowd of people to tell them what she had seen.
"Hey, hey," angrily roared the director of a moving picture that was in the making, "you've gone and spoiled the whole picture!"
THE START OF MARY'S ADVENTURE
That was the start of Mary's adventure. She became acquainted with the leading man and to him revealed her desire for romance.
"You ought to go into pictures," the leading man told Mary. "You'd get plenty of thrills and excitement and romance in them. You ought to come to the city."
So Mary ran away from home.
IN THE PICTURES
In the city Mary, with intense interest, watched the workings of the movie studio. She saw pictures in the making, directors telling the actors what to do, actors not doing as they were told, scene shifters turning a revolving stage, actors at lunch, and all the other extremely interesting features connected with the filming of a movie. Then, too, she saw the factory where the prints of the negatives were made, the cutting desks and the big drums on which the prints were dried. Mary had seen none of these things before and to see them was a constant delight to her.
Finally, through the influence of Driscoll, and despite the jealous protest of Driscoll's sophisticated sweetheart, Mary was promised the ingenue role in a new production.
But Mary proved to be a failure on the screen.
"I won't go home -- a failure!" Mary cried hotly.
DRISCOLL'S PROPOSITION
"You need not go back home," whispered Driscoll. "I can give you anything that you want."
Mary debated the proposition. Finally she accepted.
"I'm never going back home," she declared.
Did Mary ever regret this decision? Did she ever go back home?
See "A Girl's Folly" at this theater and learn the outcome of Mary's adventure.
with Robert Warwick, Doris Kenyon and Chester Barnett. Directed by Maurice Tourneur. Paragon / World Film Corporation.
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The movie-making sections of this film are available on the Before Hollywood There Was Fort Lee, N.J. DVD from David Shepard's Film Preservation Associates and Image Entertainment.
Last Modified April 9, 2007