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Phil-for-Short (1919)

Phil-for-Short (1919)

Comedy

That's what they call her-Phil for short. She liked it, too. Anyone would like such a nickname better than the regular name her folks wished on her before she got a chance to protest. Don't miss seeing Phil and her experiences on the screen.

Release Date: 1919, June 2
Directors: Oscar Apfel
Countries: United States of America
Production: World Film, World Film
Cast: John Ardizoni, Edward Arnold, Hugh Thompson, Tony Merlo, Charles Duncan, Ethel Grey Terry, Jack Drumier, Florence Short, Evelyn Greeley, Henry Hallam, Ann Eggleston, Henrietta Simpson

Overview:

A feisty, independent young woman, Damophilia Illington ("Phil" for short, hence the title), the daughter of a progressive university professor, is devastated by the sudden death of her father. The town's banker, an arrogant stuffed shirt, wants to marry Phil and has himself declared her guardian. Not wanting to marry him, she quickly leaves town and lands a job at a nearby university as an assistant to a professor of Greek literature (an area in which her father trained her) who is bitter and resentful after the breakup of his engagement to a woman who, it turned out, had been lying to him. "Phil", however, is determined to win him over.