Daughters of Today
"Home is only a place to hang her jazz frocks and hats, such time as she is not using them."
1924 · 1h 21m · N/A Drama
Overview
Mabel Vandergrift moves from the country to the city and enrolls in an upscale college. She starts to hang around with a "fast" crowd, and one night at a party a young man picks her for his "conquest". She fends him off, but when he is later found dead she is charged with his murder. Her boyfriend from back home hears about her troubles and comes to the city to clear her name and find the real killer.
Director and cast
- Patsy Ruth Miller as Lois Whittall
- Ralph Graves as Ralph Adams
- Edna Murphy as Mabel Vandegrift
- Edward Hearn as Peter Farnham
- Philo McCullough as Reggy Adams
- George Nichols as Dirk Vandegrift
- Gertrude Claire as Ma Vandegrift
- Phillips Smalley as Leigh Whittall
- Zasu Pitts as Lorena
- Henry Hebert as Calnan
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