Oh, You Women!

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Directed by John Emerson
Screenplay byJohn Emerson
Anita Loos
Produced by Adolph Zukor
John Emerson
Anita Loos
Starring Ernest Truex
Joseph Burke
Bernard Randall
Gaston Glass
Louise Huff
Betty Wales
Cinematography Jacques Montéran (French Wikipedia)
Production
companies
Famous Players–Lasky Corporation
John Emerson & Anita Loos Productions
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • May 4, 1919 (1919-05-04)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Oh, You Women! is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by John Emerson and written by Emerson and Anita Loos. The film stars Ernest Truex, Joseph Burke, Bernard Randall, Gaston Glass, Louise Huff, and Betty Wales. It was released on May 4, 1919, by Paramount Pictures. [1] [2] Oh, You Women! is currently considered a lost film. [3] The film, that had 5 reels, [4] was "about soldiers returning home from the First World War in 1919". [5]

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Plot

As described in a film magazine, [6] boy orator Abraham Lincoln Jones (Truex) works in the mayor's office and emulates his namesake, believing that he had a sure accession to the boss's chair. But the war took him away, mussed him up, and shot him back home on sick leave. He finds the home town is not the same. A couple of "Women's Rights" specialists had vested and panted the female populous, while males were minding the babies and doing housework. One young woman retained frills and furbelows, the dreaded dressmaker's daughter. Abe takes hold of the town and young woman and proves himself a man.

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References

  1. "Oh, You Women!". AFI. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  2. "Oh, You Women!". Silent Era. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  3. American Silent Feature Film Database entry on Oh, You Women! at The Library of Congress
  4. Exhibitors Herald Co.; Exhibitors Herald (1919). Exhibitors Herald (Jun-Sep 1919). Media History Digital Library. Chicago, Exhibitors Herald.
  5. Loos, Anita; Beauchamp, Cari; Loos, Mary (2003). Anita Loos rediscovered : film treatments and fiction. Internet Archive. Berkeley : University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-22894-8.
  6. "Reviews: Oh, You Women!". Exhibitors Herald. New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company. 8 (20): 46. May 10, 1919.