Headlines is a 1925 American silent adventure and crime drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Alice Joyce and Malcolm McGregor. It was distributed through Pathé Exchange.[1][2]

Headlines
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Directed byEdward H. Griffith
Written byPeter Milne
Arthur Hoerl
Based ona story by Dorian Neve and Olga Printzlau
Produced bySt. Regis Productions
StarringAlice Joyce
Malcolm McGregor
CinematographyMarcel Le Picard
Walter Arthur
Distributed byAssociated Exhibitors
Pathé Exchange
Release date
  • July 16, 1925 (1925-07-16)
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Plot

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As described in a film magazine review,[3] Phyllis Dale is a young widowed author and newspaper writer, respected and admired by Lawrence Emmett. Bobby, her young flapper daughter, has an interesting “line” that she uses on all men. When she tries it on Emmett, he whims her. Phyllis thinks Bobby has supplanted her in his affections and decides to step aside in Bobby’s interest. Soon after, Bobby innocently steps in for a moment to the apartment of one of her loose-moraled friends. His wife is looking for a co-respondent in her forthcoming divorce proceedings. Phyllis accidentally learns where Bobby is and hastens to the apartment, only to become enmeshed herself. Bobby, thoroughly and sincerely conscience-stricken by the turn of affairs and realizing how much her mother was willing to sacrifice for her, vindicates Phyllis in the eyes of Emmett, who has followed her to the apartment, and marries the editor of the local newspaper who has suppressed the scandalous headlines.

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Preservation

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Prints of Headlines survive in the Library of Congress and EYE Film Institute Netherlands.[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Headlines at silentera.com
  2. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Film 1893-1993: Headlines
  3. ^ "New Pictures: Headlines", Exhibitors Herald, 22 (7), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 63, August 8, 1925, retrieved July 16, 2022   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalogue: Headlines
  5. ^ Headlines at the Alice Joyce Website by Greta deGroat; Stanford University
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