The Gold Diggers (1923 film)

The Gold Diggers
Still with Wyndham Standing and Hope Hampton
Directed byHarry Beaumont
Written byGrant Carpenter (scenario)
Based onThe Gold Diggers
(1919 play)
by Avery Hopwood
Produced byDavid Belasco
StarringHope Hampton
Wyndham Standing
Louise Fazenda
Edited byFrank Mitchell Dazey
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • September 22, 1923 (1923-09-22) (US)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Budget$280,000[1]
Box office$501,000[1]

The Gold Diggers is a Warner Bros. silent comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont with screenplay by Grant Carpenter[2] based on the play The Gold Diggers by Avery Hopwood which ran for 282 performances on Broadway in 1919 and 1920. Both the play and the film were produced by David Belasco. The film stars Hope Hampton, Wyndham Standing, and Louise Fazenda. It was also the (uncredited) film debut of Louise Beavers.[3]

The story of The Gold Diggers was filmed again as a talkie in 1929 as Gold Diggers of Broadway, which is now lost, and also in 1933 as Gold Diggers of 1933, with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley. Three other sequels followed: Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935), Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936), and Gold Diggers in Paris (1938).

  1. ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 2 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  2. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Gold Diggers at silentera.com
  3. ^ Louise Beavers at IMDb