A Coney Island Princess

A Coney Island Princess is a lost[1] 1916 silent film comedy-drama directed by Dell Henderson and starring Irene Fenwick. It is based on the play Princess Zim-Zim by Edward Sheldon.[2] This film marked Fenwick's debut for the Famous Players Film Company, and was partly filmed on location at Coney Island.[3]

A Coney Island Princess
Film poster
Directed byDell Henderson
Produced byAdolph Zukor
Based onPrincess Zim-Zim (play)
by Edward Sheldon
StarringIrene Fenwick
Owen Moore
CinematographyLewis W. Physioc
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
December 4, 1916
Running time
50 minutes; 5 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent
(English intertitles)

Synopsis

The story evolves from a spat which Milholland has with his fiancée, Alice Gardner. While imbibing too freely in a foolish effort to assuage the pangs besetting him, he decides to sail for Europe, but he lands at Coney Island via the sight-seeing-car route, and in the course of zig-zag events he meets the Princess, an Oriental dancer, in a music hall. He becomes infatuated with her, and for the first time in his young pampered life he earns ten dollars playing a piano while she does her act on the stage. Eventually he takes the Princess to the home of his wealthy aunt, Mrs. King. Their betrothal is announced at a dinner on which occasion the Princess worries Pete and the many guests by her frequent breaches of etiquette. The next day Pete meets his former fiancée and quickly tells her that his love for the Princess is only a passing fancy. When the latter learns of this she returns to her father's Coney Island resort. There she realizes the folly of essaying to hold the fealty of a man abover her caste, and she cheerfully sets about to be happy with her lot. In the meantime a reconciliation reinstates Pete in the realm of bliss with his first love.

The Photo-Play Journal (1917)

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References
  1. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:A Coney Island Princess
  2. AFI Catalog of Feature Films: A Coney Island Princess
  3. George Blaisdell (December 1916). "A Coney Island Princess". The Moving Picture World: 1655.


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