Name: The Palm Beach Girl
Released: 1926
Cast: Bebe Daniels, Lawrence Gray, Josephine Drake, Marguerite Clayton, John G. Patrick

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

May 17, 1926

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Famous Players--Lasky

Distribution Company

Paramount Pictures

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel Please Help Emily by Harold Marsh Harwood (London, 1926).

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Theatrical Aspect Ratio

1.33 : 1

Film Length

6,918ft (7 reels)

Synopsis

Emily Bennett arrives in Palm Beach from a midwestern farm. Covered with soot from a tugboat, she is hustled into a jim crow bus by a bellboy, who refuses her tip but slips her a card suggesting that they meet later. Her aunts, Jerry and Beatrice, accompanied by society millionaire Jack Trotter and Julia, his companion, fail to recognize her until she wipes her nose with a handkerchief. Following several hours of hectic activity, the aunts struggle to transform Emily into a society debutante. When she is invited to christen Jack's motorboat, she nearly falls overboard, and later she discovers some bootleggers loading their wares into the boat. After a hair-raising ride, she is set adrift and is forced to operate the boat alone; eventually she succeeds in returning the craft to the race course, and through sheer luck she wins the race and Jack as well.