The Gold Diggers (1923 film)
The Gold Diggers 1923 is a lost Warner Bros. silent film directed by Harry Beaumont with screenplay by Grant Carpenter 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.
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. Violets 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.This film is now lost. In February 1956, Jack Warner sold the rights to all of his preDecember 1949 films to Associated Artists Productions. In 1969 UA donated 16mm prints of some Warner Bros. films from outside United States. No copies of The Gold Diggers are known to exist. ........
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