Babs (1920)
A story of a girl who takes a hand in politics when the men folks fail to manage to her liking.
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Babs Marvin loves David Darrow, a young lawyer. Babs' father, the powerful Senator Marvin, is supporting Eben Sprague for a seat in the State Legislature. Darrow discovers that Sprague is a crook and threatens to expose the candidate unless the senator agrees to switch his support to him. Babs opposes Darrow's decision, fearing that it will ruin his promising law career. Determined to defeat Darrow, she promotes the candidacy of the village pauper, Hank Dawes, and contrives an elaborate campaign based upon the slogan that Dawes' election would remove him from the welfare rolls. Dawes wins the election, but Darrow is consoled with Babs's love and the senator's support of his law career.
- Release date
- July 5, 1920
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Corinne Griffith as Barbara Marvin
- George Fawcett as Sen. Merrill Treadwill Marvin
- Webster Campbell as David Darrow
- Charles S. Abbe as Henry Dawes
- William Holden as Ben Cogswell
- Roy Applegate as Jabez Prouty
- Blanche Davenport as Aunt Celia
- Harvey A. Fisher as Shackleton Hobbs
- Walter Horton as Eben Sprague
- Wes Jenkins as Old Eph
Crew
- Edward H. Griffith · Director
- Forrest Crissey · Writer
- Lucien Hubbard · Writer
- Corinne Griffith · Producer
- Albert E. Smith · Producer
- William McCoy · Cinematographer