Phil-for-Short (1919)
A feisty, independent young woman, Damophilia Illington ("Phil" for short, hence the title), the daughter of a progressive university professor, is devastated by the sudden death of her father. The town's banker, an arrogant stuffed shirt, wants to marry Phil and has himself declared her guardian. Not wanting to marry him, she quickly leaves town and lands a job at a nearby university as an assistant to a professor of Greek literature (an area in which her father trained her) who is bitter and resentful after the breakup of his engagement to a woman who, it turned out, had been lying to him. "Phil", however, is determined to win him over.
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A feisty, independent young woman, Damophilia Illington ("Phil" for short, hence the title), the daughter of a progressive university professor, is devastated by the sudden death of her father. The town's banker, an arrogant stuffed shirt, wants to marry Phil and has himself declared her guardian. Not wanting to marry him, she quickly leaves town and lands a job at a nearby university as an assistant to a professor of Greek literature (an area in which her father trained her) who is bitter and resentful after the breakup of his engagement to a woman who, it turned out, had been lying to him. "Phil", however, is determined to win him over.
Rating:NR
Genre:Comedy
Written By:Clara Beranger, Forrest Halsey
In Theaters:6/2/1919
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Runtime:82 minutes
Studio:World Film
Cast
Oscar Apfel
Director
Evelyn Greeley
Damophilia Illington
Charles Walcott
Professor Illington
James A. Furey
Pat Mehan
Jack Drumier
Donald MacWrath
Ann Eggleston
Eliza MacWrath
Hugh Thompson
John Alden
Henrietta Simpson
Mrs. Alden
Charles Duncan
Mr. Alden
Ethel Grey Terry
Angelica Wenworth
Edward Arnold
Tom Wentworth
John Ardizoni
Ivanovitch
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