First Love (1921 film)

First Love
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Directed by	Maurice Campbell
Written by	Sonya Levien (story) Percy Heath Aubrey Staufer
Produced by	Realart Pictures
Starring	Constance Binney Warner Baxter
Cinematography	H. Kinley Martin
Production company	Realart Pictures Corporation
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	December 1921 (1921-12)
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

First Love is a 1921 American silent romantic comedy film produced by the Realart Pictures Corporation and distributed through the related Paramount Pictures. It stars Constance Binney and was directed by Maurice Campbell. Warner Baxter has one of his earliest screen portrayals here. Only the first reel of this film is known to survive at the Museum of Modern Art.^[1][2]

As described in a film magazine,^[3] factory worker Kathleen O'Donnell (Binney) has fallen in love with ambulance driver Harry Stanton (Webb). After her father Tad O'Donnell (Hernandez), who knows Harry's true character, forbids him in the house, Kathleen leaves home and works overtime at the factory for funds for Harry to complete his medical education, a course of study which exists only in fiction. The efforts of her family and other employees to show her error lead her to quit her factory job and take a job as a stripper at a restaurant, where she sees him dining with his lady friends. Her discovery of his perfidy results in an attack on him that injures his sight. She later has a happy ending as the owner of the factory Donald Halliday (Baxter) has an interest in her.

• Constance Binney as Kathleen O'Donnell
• Warner Baxter as Donald Halliday
• George Webb as Harry Stanton
• Betty Schade as Yvette De Vonne
• George Hernandez as Tad O'Donnell
• Fanny Midgley as Mrs. O'Donnell (credited as Fannie Midgley)
• Edward Jobson as Peter Holliday
• Agnes Adams as Icecream-cone Girl
• Maxine Elliott Hicks as Speeder
• Dorothy Gordon as Elsie Edwards

The December 24, 1921 issue of Exhibitors Herald illustrated the plot of First Love using a series of twenty numbered stills presented without any explanatory captions.^[4] The order of the stills may altered from that of the film since stills 10 and 16 appear to be from the same scene (the apron may indicate that these are from when she was working as a waitress at a restaurant) and 9 and 19 show Binney sitting with the same hair style.

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to First Love (1921 film).

• First Love at IMDb