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Only a Shop Girl
Also known as {Only a Shopgirl}
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6400 feet
Directed by Edward J. Le Saint (Edward LeSaint)

Cast: Estelle Taylor [Mame Mulvey], Mae Busch [Josie Jerome], Wallace Beery [Jim Brennan], William Scott [Danny Mulvey], James Morrison [Charles Black], Josephine Adair [Angelina Jerome], Willard Louis [James Watkins], Claire Du Brey [Mrs. Watkins], Tully Marshall [Watkins’ store manager]

C.B.C. Film Sales Corporation production; distributed by C.B.C. Film Sales Corporation. / Produced by Harry Cohn. Scenario by Edward J. Le Saint (Edward LeSaint), from the play Only a Shopgirl by Charles E. Blaney. / © 12 December 1922 by C.B.C. Film Sales Corporation [LP18504]. Premiered 5 December 1922 in Newark, New Jersey. Released December 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 16 October 2011.

References: Sherwood-Best pp. xviii, 181 : Website-AFI.