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The Joy Girl is a 1927 American two-strip Technicolor silent comedy film directed by Allan Dwan, released by Fox Film Corporation, starring Olive Borden, Neil Hamilton, and Marie Dressler, and based on the short story of the same name by May Edginton.[1]

The Joy Girl
Film poster
Directed by	Allan Dwan
Written by	Frances Agnew Malcolm Stuart Boylan Adele Comandini
Based on	The Joy Girl by May Edginton
Produced by	William Fox
Starring	Olive Borden Neil Hamilton Marie Dressler Mary Alden
Cinematography	William J. Miller George Webber
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	September 3, 1927 (1927-09-03)
Running time	70 minutes
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Plot

Jewel Courage (Borden) rejects a suitor (Hamilton), whom she thinks is a chauffeur, in favor of a man she thinks is a millionaire. It transpires that the roles were, in fact, reversed; Hamilton is the millionaire and the other man a chauffeur. Jewel is crushed, but manages to do well for herself in business, until the real millionaire and she find themselves reconciled.[2][3]

Cast

Production

Location filming took place in Palm Beach, Florida. Either part or all of the film was shot in Technicolor. It was the last film to be shot in the second Technicolor process ("System 2"), before the company's implementation of a new, improved format in 1928.[4]

Preservation status

A print of The Joy Girl with Czech intertitles is held at the Museum of Modern Art.[5]

See also

• List of early color feature films

References

External links

• The Joy Girl at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• Still at Getty Images

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