Week of June 3rd, 1921 - The Charm School

100 Years Ago At The Strand....

The Charm School

The Charm School is a lost 1921 American silent comedy film starring Wallace Reid. Produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures this James Cruze directed film was based on a 1920 Broadway stage play and novel by Alice Duer Miller that starred veteran actress Minnie Dupree.[2] It is currently a lost film.[3][4] It was filmed on the campus of Pomona College in Claremont, California.

When Mrs. Rolles (Farrington) insists that she will not have Austin Bevans (Reid) as a son-in-law, he insists that she will. But when his aunt dies and leaves Austin a girl's boarding school in her will, Austin gives up his suit of Susie Rolles (Bains) and decides to run the school.

https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll56/id/20897

Director
James Cruze

Writers
Thomas J. Geraghty
Alice Duer Miller(story)

Stars
Wallace Reid
Lila Lee
Adele Farrington