A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The College Coquette
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 6149 feet
Directed by George Archainbaud

Cast: Ruth Taylor [Betty Forrester], William Collier Jr. [Tom Marion], Jobyna Ralston [Doris Marlowe], John Holland [Coach Harvey Porter], Adda Gleason [Ethel Forrester], Gretchen Hartman [Mrs. Marlowe], Frances Lyons [Edna], Edward Piel Jr. [Slim], Edward Clayton [Ted], Maurice Murphy [Jimmy Doolittle], Billy Taft [the boy with a ukelele]

Columbia Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Harry Cohn. Screenplay by Norman Houston, with dialogue by Norman Houston, from a screen story by Ralph Graves. Art direction by Harrison Wiley. Assistant director, Eugene De Rue. Dialogue direction by James Seymour. Cinematography by Jackson Rose. Film editor, Gene Havlick. / © 3 September 1929 by Columbia Pictures Corporation [LP671]. Released 5 August 1929. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format (sound version) and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format (silent version)? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / The film was also released in the USA in a silent version, in six reels [?] (at 5566 or 6215 feet)?, by Columbia Pictures Corporation in 1929. / Full-sound film.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 31 January 2025.

References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.