Silk Hosiery

Silk Hosiery is a 1920 American silent comedy film directed

Silk Hosiery
by Fred Niblo and starring Enid Bennett.[1] A print listed as
being in nitrate exists in the Library of Congress and another
in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[2][3][4]

Contents
Plot
Cast
References
External links

Plot
As summarized in a film publication,[5] Marjorie Bowen
(Bennett) is a model who longs for romance and adventure of
the story book variety, but never gets further than displaying
gowns at an ultra-fashionable clothing shop. Every customer
who comes in is buying a gown for a ball thrown by some
Prince. Yvette (Pavis), a French woman, comes to order a
gown and brings her fiance Sir Leeds (Webb), who
immediately attracts Marjorie's attention, but she loses hope
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after she hears that he is engaged. Marjorie stays alone in the
shop to deliver the gown to Yvette and dresses herself in the Directed by Fred Niblo
costume. Some crook business follows in which Yvette and an Written by Frank Mitchell
idler are implicated. Marjorie gets mixed up in it and ends up Dazey
kidnapped and in a room with Sir Leeds, who tries to explain
Produced by Thomas H. Ince
what happened. They escape and Marjorie impresses the
Prince (Ghent) by recovering a note and piece of jewelry that Starring Enid Bennett
the Prince had indiscreetly given a New York society woman Geoffrey Webb
and which he feared would be used against him. Leeds turns Cinematography George Barnes
out to be a detective. He asks Marjorie to marry him.
Edited by Charles H. Kyson
Harry Marker
Cast
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Enid Bennett - Marjorie Bowen Release date December 26, 1920
Geoffrey Webb - Sir Derwain Leeds
Running time 5 reels (1,388.65
Marie Pavis - Yvette Fernau
meters)
Donald MacDonald - Cadwallader Smith
Country United States
Derek Ghent - Prince Ferdinandi (as Derrick Ghent)
 Otto Hoffman - Van Twiller Language Silent (English
Joan Standing - Sophia Black intertitles)
Verne Winter - Billy Black (as Vern Winters)
Harold Holland - Jim Shanahan
Bonnie Hill - Mollie Milligan
Sylvia Brooks - Mrs. De Windt
Rose Dione - Mme. Louise

References
1. Janiss Garza (2011). "New York Times: Silk Hosiery" (https://web.archive.org/web/20110520
042354/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/110181/Silk-Hosiery/overview). Movies & TV Dept.
The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original (https://movies.
nytimes.com/movie/110181/Silk-Hosiery/overview) on May 20, 2011. Retrieved June 7,
2008.
2. Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists
Collection at The Library of Congress ...by The American Film Institute, c.1978
3. The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film
Institute, c. 1988
4. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Silk Hosiery (http://l
cweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2626/default.html)
5. "Silk Hosiery: Star is Pleasing But Not the Picture You Usually Get from Her" (https://archive.
org/details/filmdailyvolume11516newy). Film Daily. New York City: Wyd's Films and Film
Folks, Inc. 15 (41): 20 (https://archive.org/details/filmdailyvolume11516newy/page/20).
February 13, 1921. Retrieved March 12, 2014.

External links
Silk Hosiery (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012687/) at IMDb
Silk Hosiery; allmovie.com/synopsis (http://www.allmovie.com/movie/silk-hosiery-v110181)

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