What Women Love
Cast & Crew
Nate C. Watt
Annette Kellerman
Ralph Lewis
Wheeler Oakman
Carl Ullman
Walter Long
Film Details
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Synopsis
Social reformer and head of the Purity League, James King Cotton finds it impossible to restrain his daughter Annabel from parading around in scanty bathing suits. When Annabel laughs at Willy St. John's overtures to her because of his lack of athletic prowess, Willy hires boxer Captain Buck Nelson to teach him self-defense. Both men are invited to accompany the Cottons on a yachting trip during which Nelson physically attacks Annabel. After Nelson chases her up the ship's rigging, forcing her to perform a high dive into the sea, and struggles with her underwater, Willy finally intercedes, fighting off both Nelson as well as the crew to rescue his love. Thus satisfied with Willy's physical abilities, Annabel awards him her love.
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Director
Nate C. Watt
Cast
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Annette Kellerman
Ralph Lewis
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Wheeler Oakman
Carl Ullman
Walter Long
Bull Montana
Crew
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Film Details
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Notes
The film had its premiere at the Temple Theater, Santa Ana, CA, on June 1, 1920. A scene of Annette Kellerman performing a seventy-five foot dive into the Pacific Ocean was shot off the coast of Balboa Beach, CA.
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