Old Clothes

65 mins.CountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Old Clothes is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Edward F. Cline and starring Jackie Coogan and Joan Crawford. It was a sequel to The Rag Man.

This was the first film in which Crawford was credited with her new name — Joan Crawford. She had been renamed by the studio, who deemed her birth name, Lucille LeSueur, as sounding unfit for a movie star.

Plot

Tim Kelly and Max Ginsberg have struck it rich by investing in copper stock. But when the stock takes a dive, they are compelled to go back into their former profession — junk dealers. They take in the destitute Mary Riley as a boarder and she hits it off so well with them that she winds up becoming a partner in their rag & junk company. Mary falls in love with a man named Nathan Burke, the son of wealthy parents. Nathan's mother, however, disapproves of Mary. Eventually it is revealed that Mrs. Burke came from a poor background herself, and her long-ago sweetheart was Max. After this discovery, she gives the couple her blessings. The copper stock soars in value once again, so Kelly and Ginsberg are back in the money.^[1]

Cast

• Jackie Coogan as Tim Kelly
• Max Davidson as Max Ginsberg
• Joan Crawford as Mary Kelly
• Allan Forrest as Nathan Burke
• Lillian Elliott as Mrs. Burke
• James Mason as Dapper Dan
• Stanton Heck as The adjuster
• Dynamite the Horse

References

External links

• Old Clothes at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Old Clothes at IMDb
• Old Clothes at the TCM Movie Database