The Girl with the Jazz Heart
Cast & Crew
Lawrence C. Windom
Madge Kennedy
Joe King
Leon Pierre Gendron
William Walcott
Helen Du Bois
Film Details
Synopsis
When Miriam Smith's devoutly religious aunt and uncle insist that she marry pious Simeon Althoff, Miriam answer an ad in a matrimonial newspaper and runs away to New York to meet her correspondent. Upon learning that Miles Sprague, the man in the ad, is coming to claim her, Miriam gets cold feet and begs her experienced friend Kitty Swasher, the hotel telephone operator, for help. When Miles arrives, Kitty pretends that she is Miriam and the three go to a cabaret. Meanwhile, the detectives employed by Miriam's aunt and uncle to bring her home appear and, thinking that Kitty is Miriam, arrest her. Simeon arrives soon after and identifies the real Miriam who is then taken home and locked in her room. Kitty and Miles follow and rescue Miriam, who realizes that she has fallen in love with the man from her ad.
Director
Lawrence C. Windom
Cast
Madge Kennedy
Joe King
Leon Pierre Gendron
William Walcott
Helen Du Bois
Robert Vaughn
Emile Hoch
Lillian Worth
Robert Tansey
Dorothy Haight
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Notes
The film played in Los Angeles in October 1920. One source credits Gerald C. Duffy as scenarist. The film was re-released in January 1921 with the slightly altered title, The Girl with a Jazz Heart. Modern sources add to the cast Gilda Gray.
