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Polly with a Past is a 1920 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Metro Pictures and directed by Leander de Cordova. Based on a 1917 Broadway stage play of the same name, the film starred Ina Claire, reprising her stage role in the title role of Polly. Clifton Webb had an early unbilled screen appearance in this film.
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Polly with a Past: Directed by Leander De Cordova. With Ina Claire, Ralph Graves, Marie Wainwright, Harry Benham. Wealthy young Rex Van Zile is madly in love with pretty Myrtle Davis, but she is so absorbed in the task she has taken on to herself of reforming Skid-Row derelicts that she pays no attention to Rex's affections.
- (17)
- Drama
- Leander De Cordova
- 1920-11-29
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- Leander De Cordova
- Metro Pictures Corporation
- Ina Clare
Polly with a Past. ( 1920 ) « A clear-eyed, outlandishly pretty young girl is persuaded to assume a past. Like a man trying on an army uniform, she rather fancies it at first. But the rub comes when she finds what goes with the uniform of a checkered career.
- Leander De Cordova
- Metro Pictures Corporation
- Ina Claire
Polly Shannon takes a job as a maid to earn money to go to Paris and study opera. She becomes embroiled in a scheme by her two employers to help their friend in the love of a woman who does not fancy him: She will pretend to be interested in their friend instead.
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'Polly with a Past' is a frothy little comedy, dealing largely with subjects that nobody cares about any more. The chief interest of this film is that it stars Ina Claire, an actress who starred in many Broadway plays but made only a handful of films.
