The Girl Who Stayed at Home
About The Girl Who Stayed at Home
James Grey tries to dodge the draft so he can stay with cabaret singer Cutie Beautiful. His older brother Ralph enlists and goes to France, where he loves Blossom, daughter of a former Confederate officer who never surrendered and moved to Europe. James is drafted anyway. In the line he pulls Ralph and a patrol out of a shell hole behind the German side. A German officer threatens Blossom and is shot by a German soldier she had helped earlier. After the armistice the brothers go home to the women they want, and Blossom's father swears allegiance to the American flag.
Cast & crew
More about The Girl Who Stayed at Home
D. W. Griffith produced and directed. Stanner E. V. Taylor wrote the script with him. James Smith edited it. Paramount released it on 23 March 1919 in 7 reels (6,672 feet).
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed Griffith's seven-reel Paramount release.
Preservation
Prints of the film exist.
Notes
- Richard Barthelmess plays Ralph Grey. Robert Harron plays James Grey. Carol Dempster plays Blossom. Clarine Seymour plays Cutie Beautiful.
- George Fawcett plays Edward Grey, the shipbuilder father. Kate Bruce plays his wife. Adolph Lestina plays Monsieur Le France. Tully Marshall plays an older friend of Cutie's.
Scenes
- James drags Ralph's patrol out of a shell hole behind the lines.
- Monsieur Le France salutes the American flag after the war.
