Minnie (film)

Minnie is a 1922 American silent comedy film starring Leatrice Joy and co-directed by Marshall Neilan and Frank Urson. Neilan also wrote and produced the film which was released by Associated First National Pictures (later First National Pictures).^[1] It is not known whether the film currently survives,^[1] which suggests that it is a lost film.

Plot

As described in a film publication, Minnie (Joy),^[2] the homeliest girl in town, is devoted to her father (Barnum), a discouraged inventor who has been working on a wireless device. Subject to the sneers of her neighbors, Minnie "invents" a lover and sends herself letters and flowers. Her stepsister (Lynch) suspects the truth and threatens to expose her. Desperate, she claims an unidentified body at the morgue and tells a reporter (Moore) that this is her lover, unaware that the body is that of a Chinese man. The absent-minded reporter sees he heart and forgets about the big story. After further disappointments in the invention, Minnie's stepmother decides to leave her father. Her father then has a success and becomes rich. At a celebration, the stepsister and townspeople are surprised when a new couple appear, which turn out to be the former reporter and his lovely wife Minnie.

Cast

• Leatrice Joy - Minnie
• Matt Moore - Newspaperman
• George Barnum - Minnie's Father
• Josephine Crowell - Stepmother
• Helen Lynch - Stepsister
• Raymond Griffith - Chewing Gum Salesman
• Richard Wayne - Young Doctor
• Tom Wilson - Boardinhous Janitor
• George Dromgold - Local Cut-Up

References

External links

• Minnie at the Internet Movie Database
• Minnie at AllMovie
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