The Five O'Clock Girl (1928) - Turner Classic Movies

The Five O'Clock Girl


1928

Brief Synopsis

"The Five O'Clock Girl" was a successful Broadway play starring Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw. Marion Davies' Cosmopolitan Productions bought the rights for the play and filmed it as a feature talkie. The plot revolves around Pat, a shop girl in a cleaners, and a local plumber named Gerry who she falls in love with. Publicity stills from the film show Marion trying on clothes people have brought in for cleaning and doing impersonations of the clothes' owners.

Film Details

Release Date
1928

Technical Specs

Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White

Synopsis

"The Five O'Clock Girl" was a successful Broadway play starring Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw. Marion Davies' Cosmopolitan Productions bought the rights for the play and filmed it as a feature talkie. The plot revolves around Pat, a shop girl in a cleaners, and a local plumber named Gerry who she falls in love with. Publicity stills from the film show Marion trying on clothes people have brought in for cleaning and doing impersonations of the clothes' owners.

Film Details

Release Date
1928

Technical Specs

Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White

Quotes

Trivia

Rough cut was shelved due to a quarrel between Louis B. Mayer and William Randolph Hearst.

The film was aborted in mid-production and never completed.