Mary Pickford

COQUETTE

United Artists, 1929.  Directed by Sam Taylor.  Camera:  Karl Struss.  With Mary Pickford, Matt Moore, Johnny Mack Brown, George Irving, Louise Beavers, John St. Polis, William Janney, Henry Kolker.

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Norma Besant, a heartless belle of a southern town, falls in love with Michael Jeffrey, a crude and prideful mountaineer.  Her father, a physician, is so displeased that he refuses to allow them to marry.  He orders Jeffrey out of his house and, half-crazed, shoots and kills Jeffrey to preserve his family's good name.  While he is awaiting his trial Besant commits suicide in a final effort to atone to his daughter for her unhappiness.

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