Film

The Girl with the Jazz Heart

1921 · 50m · Comedy

The spirit of jazz-wild, joyous, uncontained-come to life upon the screen. YOU'LL LIKE IT

When Miriam Smith's devoutly religious aunt and uncle insist that she marry pious Simeon Althoff, she answers an ad in a matrimonial newspaper and runs away to New York to meet her correspondent. Upon learning that Miles Sprague, the man in the ad, is coming to claim her, Miriam gets cold feet and begs her experienced friend Kittie Swasher, the hotel telephone operator, for help. When Miles arrives, Kittie pretends that she is Miriam and the three go to a cabaret. Meanwhile, the detectives employed by Miriam's aunt and uncle to bring her home appear and arrest Kittie, thinking that she's Miriam. Simeon arrives soon after and identifies the real Miriam, who is then taken home and locked in her room. Kittie and Miles follow and rescue Miriam, who realizes that she has fallen in love with the man from her ad.

Madge Kennedy

Kittie Swasher / Miriam Smith

Joe King

Miles Sprague

Pierre Gendron

Tommie Fredericks

William Walcott

Miriam's Uncle

Helen Dubois

Miriam's Aunt

Robert Vaughn

Simeon Althoff

Emil Hoch

Detective Quinn

Lillian Worth

Camille

Robert Emmett Tansey

Jimmie

Dorothy Haight

Mamie

Gilda Gray

• Lawrence C. WindomDirector
• Robert T. ShannonStory
• George PetersDirector of Photography

Release date

January 7, 1921

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

50m

Genres

Comedy