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The Girl with the Jazz Heart (1921)

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.

Release: 1921-01-07
Runtime: 50 min
Cast
Madge Kennedy
Madge Kennedy
Kittie Swasher / Miriam Smith
Joe King
Joe King
Miles Sprague
Pierre Gendron
Pierre Gendron
Tommie Fredericks
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William Walcott
Miriam's Uncle
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Helen Dubois
Miriam's Aunt
Robert Vaughn
Robert Vaughn
Simeon Althoff
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Emil Hoch
Detective Quinn
Lillian Worth
Lillian Worth
Camille
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Robert Emmett Tansey
Jimmie
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Dorothy Haight
Mamie
Gilda Gray
Gilda Gray