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God Gave me 20 Cents
Director: Herbert Brenon - Ray Lissner (asst)
Year: 1926
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Release info: New York premiere on Nov. 20, 1926 with national release on February 12, 1927
Genre: melodrama
Click to see Cast:

Lois Moran - Mary

Lya de Putti - Cassie Lang

Jack Mulhall - Steve Doren

William Collier Jr - Barney Tapman

Adrienne D'Ambricourt - Ma Tapman

Leo Feodoroff - Andre Dufour

Rosa Rosanova - Mrs. Dufour

Claude Brooke - florist

Tommy Madden

Phil Bloom

Eddie 'Spider' Kelly - thug in cafe

Jack 'Young' Sharkey - thug in cafe

Hary Lewis - thug in cafe


Synopsis: from AFI

Sailors Steve Doren and Barney Tapman ship into New Orleans just in time for the last day of the Mardi Gras. They enter on a boisterous tour of the city, and as they pass a storefront restaurant, Steve's eye falls upon Mary, a fragile flower of a waitress, and the rugged sailor sweeps her onto their float, beginning a whirlwind courtship that leads to the altar in less than a fortnight. Steve's old flame, Cassie, is a worldly woman but cannot accept her lover's hands-off policy. She dares him to toss coins with her for a last fling, and when "heads" come up, Cassie and Steve are off to a cafe, where Steve buys them some coffee and inexplicably rushes out, angrily flinging the coins into the gutter. Apparently deserted, Mary is despondent until, finding two dimes on the dock, she buys a white flower for her hair, hopefully remembering the night she met Steve. She then stumbles upon Barney and Cassie, who have fallen back into larcenous ways and are rifling a safe. Cassie is shot, clears Steve before dying, and sets Mary's heart a-thumping in anticipation of Steve's returning ship. The lovers are happily rejoined, and the erstwhile florist finally shows up with two dimes, each with two heads, and Mary answers Steve's curious entreaties: "I prayed--and God gave me twenty cents."

Production Company: Famous Players-Lasky Corp.
Distribution: Paramount Pictures
Producer: Adolph Zukor - Jesse L. Lasky
Writer: Elizabeth Meehan - John Russell
Photography: Leo Tover
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Notes: Based on the short story "God Gave Me Twenty Cents" by Dixie Willson in Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan (Jul 1926).
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Other Information: length of film - 7 reels - 6321 ft.

 

 

 


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