Polly with a Past

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Polly with a Past
File:Ina Claire in Polly with a Past Film Daily 1920.png
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Directed by Leander de Cordova
Produced by Maxwell Karger
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Based on Polly With a Past (play)
by Guy Bolton and George Middleton
Starring Ina Claire
Cinematography Arthur Martinelli
Production
company
Distributed by Metro Pictures
Release dates
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  • November 29, 1920 (1920-11-29)[1]
Running time
 6 reels
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Polly with a Past is a 1920 American silent film produced and distributed by Metro Pictures and directed by Leander de Cordova.[1] Based on a 1917 Broadway stage play, the film starred Ina Claire, reprising her stage role as the title Polly. Clifton Webb had an early unbilled screen appearance in this film.

As with many Metro Pictures productions from the period from the late 1910s to the early 1920s, this film is presumed lost.[2][3]

Plot

Minister's daughter Polly Shannon (Ina Claire), in order to earn money go to Paris and study opera, takes a job as a maid for Clay Cullum (Harry Benham) and Harry Richardson (Clifton Webb). Cullum and Richardson are friends with Rex Van Zile (Ralph Graves), whose love for Myrtle Davis (Louiszita Valentine) is unrequited. The three friends and Polly come up with a scheme to get Myrtle to notice Rex. Polly poses as a French adventuress "with a past" who pursues Rex. Their plan is to inspire Myrtle to save Rex from the bad woman.

Complications ensue and in the end Rex and Polly fall in love.

Cast

Production

In December 1919, Metro acquired the play Polly With a Past (1917) from Guy Bolton and George Middleton for $75,000, reputedly the highest price paid for a stage story to that time. Its purchase reflected Metro's efforts to obtain stories that were already well-known and popular. From the start, Ina Claire, who had played Polly on the stage, was intended to star in the film version.[4]

June Mathis began work on the script in June 1920. Location scouting trips to Long Island were reported in August. Interiors were filmed at the Metro studios in New York; two Long Island estates provided exteriors. By the end of September shooting was finished.[5]

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