That Royle Girl
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
D. W. Griffith
Carol Dempster
W. C. Fields
James Kirkwood
Harrison Ford
Marie Chambers
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Joan Daisy Royle is the daughter of a drunken confidence man and a sickly mother dependent upon drugs. A frail type, she has grown up innocent of the world's evils and finds inspiration in a statue of her ideal, Lincoln. She becomes a model, gets involved with a jazz set, and falls in love with Fred Ketlar, famous leader of a Chicago dancehall orchestra separated from his wife, Adele. Adele is killed, and Ketlar is arrested. Straitlaced Deputy District Attorney Calvin Clarke becomes strangely attracted to Daisy, though she is a witness for the defense. Ketlar is convicted, and as the day of his execution nears, Daisy works frantically to save him. Learning that gangster George Baretta is the real culprit, she attracts his attention, thus arousing the jealousy of his girl. In the resulting quarrel, Baretta confesses, but Daisy is discovered and imprisoned in a cellar. A cyclone wrecks the building; the gangsters are killed, but Daisy is safe. Clarke finds her and they marry, while Ketlar is freed and marries a chorus girl.
Director
D. W. Griffith
Cast
Carol Dempster
W. C. Fields
James Kirkwood
Harrison Ford
Marie Chambers
Paul Everton
George Rigas
Florence Auer
Ida Waterman
Alice Laidley
Dorothea Love
Dore Davidson
Frank Allworth
Bobby Watson
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Most of Paramount's top directors turned down this assignment, and D.W. Griffith tried to. Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky insisted that he do it.
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Notes
Title also rendered: D. W. Griffith's "That Royle Girl."
