Daughters of Today (1924)
"Home is only a place to hang her jazz frocks and hats, such time as she is not using them."
Mabel Vandergrift moves from the country to the city and enrolls in an upscale college. She starts to hang around with a "fast" crowd, and one night at a party a young man picks her for his "conquest". She fends him off, but when he is later found dead she is charged with his murder. Her boyfriend from back home hears about her troubles and comes to the city to clear her name and find the real killer.
- Date of release
- 1924-02-02
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Rollin S. Sturgeon
Casting
- Patsy Ruth Miller — Lois Whittall
- Ralph Graves — Ralph Adams
- Edna Murphy — Mabel Vandegrift
- Edward Hearn — Peter Farnham
- Philo McCullough — Reggy Adams
- George Nichols — Dirk Vandegrift
- Gertrude Claire — Ma Vandegrift
- Phillips Smalley — Leigh Whittall
- Zasu Pitts — Lorena
- Henry Hebert — Calnan
- Fontaine La Rue — Mrs. Mantell
- Dorothy Wood — Flo
Interesting facts
Daughters of Today is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and starring Patsy Ruth Miller, Ralph Graves, and Edna Murphy.
Production
Daughters of Today was originally developed by Irving Thalberg as a flapper film, but was assigned to be directed by Sturgeon when Thalberg left for MGM.
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