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Polly with a Past (1920)

Running Time

November 29, 1920
Release Date

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Polly with a Past (1920)

Name: Polly with a Past
Released: 1920-11-29

Running Time

November 29, 1920
Release Date

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Plot.

Polly Shannon takes a job as a maid to earn money to go to Paris and study opera. She becomes embroiled in a scheme by her two employers to help their friend in the love of a woman who does not fancy him: She will pretend to be interested in their friend instead. The film has been lost.

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Cast & Crew.

Ina Clare

Polly Shannon

Ina Claire

Polly Shannon

Ralph Graves

Rex Van Zile

Marie Wainwright

Mrs. Van Zile

Harry Benham

Clay Cullum

Clifton Webb

Harry Richardson

Louszita Valentine

Myrtle Davis

Myra Brooks

the cook

Leander De Cordova

Director

Frank Currier

Undetemined Role

George Middleton

Story

June Mathis

Scenario Writer

Maxwell Karger

Producer

Guy Bolton

Story

Arthur J. Zellner

Scenario Writer

Arthur Martinelli

Cinematography

Details.

Release Date
November 29, 1920

Status
Released

Running Time
1h

Last updated: 2025-02-17

Wiki.

Polly with a Past is a 1920 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Metro Pictures and directed by Leander de Cordova. Based on a 1917 Broadway stage play of the same name, the film starred Ina Claire, reprising her stage role in the title role of Polly. Clifton Webb had an early unbilled screen appearance in this film.

As with many Metro Pictures productions from the period from the late 1910s to the early 1920s, this film is presumed lost.