The Gold Diggers (1923 film)

The Gold Diggers
Directed by Harry Beaumont
Produced by David Belasco
Written by Grant Carpenter
Based on The Gold Diggers 
by Avery Hopwood
Starring Hope Hampton
Wyndham Standing
Louise Fazenda
Edited by Frank Mitchell Dazey
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release dates
  • September 22, 1923
Running time
 80 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent
English intertitles

The Gold Diggers (1923) is a Warner Bros. silent film directed by Harry Beaumont with screenplay by Grant Carpenter[1] based on the play The Gold Diggers by Avery Hopwood which ran for 282 performances on Broadway in 1919 and 1920. Both the play and the film were produced by David Belasco. The film stars Hope Hampton, Wyndham Standing, and Louise Fazenda. It was also the (uncredited) film debut of Louise Beavers.[2]

The story of The Gold Diggers was filmed again as a talkie in 1929 as Gold Diggers of Broadway, which is now lost, and also in 1933 as Gold Diggers of 1933, with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley. Three other sequels followed: Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935), Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936), and Gold Diggers in Paris (1938).

Plot

Wally Saunders (Johnny Harron) wants to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne (Anne Cornwall), but his uncle, Stephen Lee (Wydham Standing) thinks that all chorines are gold diggers (people who date others to get money from them) and refuses to give his approval. Violet's friend Jerry La Mar (Hope Hampton) is not a gold digger, but she agrees to go after Lee so aggressively that Violet will look tame by comparison. Of course, the uncle and the friend fall in love and get married, even after he knows the truth about her, and he gives permission for Wally and Violet to get hitched too.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ The Gold Diggers at silentera.com
  2. ↑ The Gold Diggers at the Internet Movie Database

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