| Old Clothes | |
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| Directed by | Edward F. Cline |
| Produced by | Jack Coogan, Sr. |
| Written by | Story: Willard Mack Titles: Robert E. Hopkins |
| Starring | Jackie Coogan Joan Crawford Max Davidson Lillian Elliott Allan Forrest |
| Cinematography | Frank B. Good Harry Davis |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | November 9, 1925 |
| Running time | 65 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Old Clothes is a 1925 MGM silent film, starring Jackie Coogan and Joan Crawford.
This was the first film in which Miss Crawford was credited with her new name — Joan Crawford. She had been renamed by the studio, who deemed her birth name, Lucille LeSueur, as sounding unfit for a movie star.
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Tim Kelly (Jackie Coogan) and Max Ginsberg (Max Davidson) have struck it rich by investing in copper stock. But when the stock takes a dive, they are compelled to go back into their former profession — junk dealers. They take in the destitute Mary Riley (Joan Crawford) as a boarder and she hits it off so well with them that she winds up becoming a partner in their rag & junk company. Mary falls in love with a man named Nathan Burke (Allan Forrest), the son of wealthy parents. Nathan's mother (Lillian Elliott), however, disapproves of Mary. Eventually it is revealed that Mrs. Burke came from a poor background herself, and her long-ago sweetheart was Max. After this discovery, she gives the couple her blessings. The copper stock soars in value once again, so Kelly and Ginsberg are back in the money.[1]