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{{short description|1925 film by D. W. Griffith}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = That Royle Girl
| image =File: That Royle Girl poster.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Film poster
| director = [[D. W. Griffith]]
| producer = [[Jesse L. Lasky]]
| writer = [[Paul Schofield (screenwriter)|Paul Schofield]]
| based onbased_on = {{based on|''That Royle Girl''|[[Edwin Balmer]]}}
| starring = [[Carol Dempster]]<br>[[W. C. Fields]]<br>[[James Kirkwood, Sr.|James Kirkwood]]<br>[[Harrison Ford (silent film actor)|Harrison Ford]]
| music =
| cinematography = [[:fr:Harry Fischbeck|Harry Fischbeck]]<br>Harold S. Sintzenich
| editing = [[James Smith (film editor)|James Smith]]
| studio = [[Famous Players-LaskyPlayers–Lasky]]
| distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|1925|12|7}}
| runtime = 114 minutes
| country = United States
| language = [[Silent<br> film|Silent]] (English intertitles[[intertitle]]s)
| budget = $595,000 <ref name="var">{{cite magazine|accessdate=21 March 2023|url=https://archive.org/details/variety92-1928-09/page/n12/mode/1up?q=%22budgeted+at%22|magazine=Variety|title=Griffith's 20 Year Record|date=5 September 1928|page=12}}</ref>
| budget =
| gross = $900,000<ref name="var"/>
}}
[[File:That Royle Girl cover.jpg|200px|right|thumb|The cover of the still-extant novel that the film was based on]]
[[File:That Royle Girl ad in Motion Picture News, September-October 1925 (page 7 crop).jpg|thumb|349x349px|''That Royle Girl, 1925 ad'']]
[[File:That Royle Girl (SAYRE 14360).jpg|thumb|262x262px|That Royle Girl publicity photo]]
'''''That Royle Girl''''' wasis a 1925 American [[silent film|silent]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[D. W. Griffith]] and released by [[Paramount Pictures]]. The film was based on [[s:That Royle Girl|the novel of the same name]] by [[Edwin Balmer]], and starred [[Carol Dempster]], [[W. C. Fields]] and [[Harrison Ford (silent film actor)|Harrison Ford]]. It is now considered [[lost film|lost]].<ref name=simmon>{{cite book|last=Simmon|first=Scott |title=The Films of D. W. Griffith|year=1993|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=0-521-38820-1|page=25}}</ref><ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9761/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''That Royle Girl'']</ref>▼
 
==Plot==
▲'''''That Royle Girl''''' was a 1925 American [[silent film|silent]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[D. W. Griffith]] and released by [[Paramount Pictures]]. The film was based on the novel of the same name by [[Edwin Balmer]], and starred [[Carol Dempster]], [[W. C. Fields]] and [[Harrison Ford (silent film actor)|Harrison Ford]]. It is now considered [[lost film|lost]].<ref name=simmon>{{cite book|last=Simmon|first=Scott |title=The Films of D. W. Griffith|year=1993|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=0-521-38820-1|page=25}}</ref><ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9761/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''That Royle Girl'']</ref>
As described in a film magazine review and other references,<ref>{{Citation |title=New Pictures: ''That Royle Girl'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=49 |date=17 October 1925 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=Chicago, Illinois |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald22unse/page/462/mode/1up |access-date=17 October 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Langman|first=Larry|title=American Film Cycles: The Silent Era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ltcNWzVEaEUC&q=%22that+royle+girl%22&pg=PA208|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=0-313-30657-5|page=208}}</ref> a poor [[Model (person)|mannequin]] from the slums of [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]] fancies she is in love with a jazz music composer and orchestra leader who is married but does not live with his wife. One night his wife is murdered and the [[modiste]]’s assistant is held as a material witness because she is known to have been friendly with the musician. After he is improperly convicted and sentenced to death for murder, she succeeds in clearing him just as he is to be hanged. Only then does she learn that she loves the district attorney who secured the conviction. Her love of him is reciprocated.
 
==Production==▼
A poor young woman ([[Carol Dempster]]) from the slums of [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]] singlehandedly saves a [[jazz]] bandleader ([[Harrison Ford (silent film actor)|Harrison Ford]]) after he is improperly convicted and sentenced to death for murder.<ref>{{cite book|last=Langman|first=Larry|title=American Film Cycles: The Silent Era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ltcNWzVEaEUC&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq=%22that+royle+girl%22&source=web&ots=YLgveE_DeR&sig=t03pe_tRL5DKPueBhJ9wl5oihek&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#v=onepage&q=%22that%20royle%20girl%22&f=false|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=0-313-30657-5|page=208}}</ref>
 
This film, along with ''Sally of the Sawdust'', marked Griffith's return to working for an important Hollywood studio, ([[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]), something he hadn't experienced since leaving [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|Biograph]] in 1914. He also had to work with a tight shooting script as Paramount executives [[Adolph Zukor]] and [[Jesse L. Lasky]] insisted the film be brought on schedule and on budget.▼
 
Griffith had been a founding partner in [[Triangle Film Corporation|Triangle Studios]] in 1915 and [[United Artists]] in 1919, and these ventures allowed him leeway in the way he made films. However, now the leisurely approach to filmmaking Griffith had enjoyed at his own [[Mamaroneck (village), New York|Mamaroneck, New York]] was gone. Griffith had been for all intents and purposes an independent producer since leaving Biograph. Griffith shot ''That Royle Girl'' on locations across Chicago. The film’s climactic sequence, a devastating [[tornado]], was filmed on a football field at Paramount’s [[Kaufman Astoria Studios|Astoria Studio]] in [[Queens, New York]], where Griffith created a fully built village. Griffith used the power of 24 airplane propellers to recreate the wreckage and ruin of the tornado’s fury.▼
 
While the production was underway, Griffith added [[W. C. Fields]] to the cast for a comedy relief supporting role as the heroine’s inebriated stepfather.<ref>Fields, Ronald J. “W.C. Fields: A Life on Film,” pages 31-33. St. Martin’s Press, 1984. {{ISBN|0-312-85312-2}}</ref>▼
 
==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
*[[Carol Dempster]] as Joan Daisy Royle
*[[W. C. Fields]] as Her Father
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*[[Florence Auer]] as Baretta's Girl
*[[Ida Waterman]] as Mrs. Clarke
*Alice Laidley as Clarke's FianceeFiancée
*Dorothy Love as Lola Nelson
*[[Dore Davidson]] as Elman
*Frank Allworth as Oliver
*[[Bobby Watson (actor)|Bobby Watson]] as Hofer
}}
 
▲==Production==
▲This film, along with ''[[Sally of the Sawdust]]'', marked Griffith's return to working for an important Hollywood studio, ([[like Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]), something he hadn'thad not experienced since leaving [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|Biograph]] in 1914, though his independently produced features were released through Triangle, Paramount, and United Artists. He also had to work with a tight shooting script as Paramount executives [[Adolph Zukor]] and [[Jesse L. Lasky]] insisted the film be brought on schedule and on budget.
 
▲Griffith had been a founding partner in [[Triangle Film Corporation|Triangle Studios]] in 1915 and [[United Artists]] in 1919, and these ventures allowed him leeway in the way he made films. However, now the leisurely approach to filmmaking Griffith had enjoyed at his own [[Mamaroneck (village), New York|Mamaroneck]], Long Island, New York]] studio was gone. Griffith had been for all intents and purposes an independent producer since leaving Biograph. Griffith shot ''That Royle Girl'' on locations across Chicago. The film’sfilm's climactic sequence, a devastating [[tornado]], was filmed on a football field at Paramount’sParamount's [[Kaufman Astoria Studios|Astoria Studio]] in [[Queens, New York]], where Griffith created a fully built village. Griffith used the power of 24 airplane propellers to recreate the wreckage and ruin of the tornado’stornado's fury.
 
▲While the production was underway, Griffith added [[W. C. Fields]] to the cast for a comedy relief supporting role as the heroine’sheroine's inebriated stepfather.<ref>Fields, Ronald J. “W(1984). ''W.C. Fields: A Life on Film'',” pagespp. 31-33. St. Martin’s Press, 1984. {{ISBN|0-312-85312-2}}</ref>
 
==Preservation status==
No print of ''That Royle Girl'' is known to exist.<ref name=simmon /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/ThatRoyleGirl1926.html |title=That Royle Girl |publisher=silentera.com |accessdateaccess-date=March 2, 2013}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141225003106/http://www.thegreatstars.com/lost_film_wanted.htm ''That Royle Girl'' at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted] (Wayback Machine)</ref> In 1980, the [[American Film Institute]] included this title among its list of the “Ten Most Wanted” lost films of all time.<ref>Thomson, Frank. “Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappeared,” page xiv. Citadel Press, 1996. {{ISBN|0-8065-1604-6}}</ref>
 
==See also==
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==External links==
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*{{IMDb title|0016420}}
*{{tcmdbTCMDb title|498698}}
*[[s:That Royle Girl|''That Royle Girl'' (the novel) on Wikisource]], which the film was based on
*[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/ThatRoyleGirl1926.html ''That Royle Girl'' at SilentEra]
*hard to find [http://pics.filmaffinity.com/That_Royle_Girl-499867295-large.jpg lobby poster]
 
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