A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Why Girls Go Back Home
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5262 feet
Directed by James Flood

Cast: Patsy Ruth Miller [Marie Downey], Clive Brook [Clifford Dudley], Jane Winton [a model], Myrna Loy [Sally Short], George O’Hara [John Ross], Joseph Dowling [Joe Downey], Herbert Pryor [a man in the badger game], Virginia Ainsworth [a woman in the badger game], Brooks Benedict [a man in the badger game]

Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Sonya Hovey, from an adaptation by Walter Morosco of a screen story by Catherine Brody. Assistant director, Ross Lederman. Cinematography by Charles Van Enger. Assistant cameraman, Frank Kesson. / © 3 April 1926 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated [LP22564]. Released 27 March 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 November 2023.

References: Drew-Speaking pp. 138, 150, 281 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.