Jenny Be Good

Jenny Be Good is a 1920 American silent romance drama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Mary Miles Minter, based on a novel by Wilbur Finley Fauley[1] and adapted for the screen by Julia Crawford Ivers.

[3] As described in film magazine reviews,[4][5][6] Jenny Riano (Minter), is an orphaned girl and a talented violinist, who is raised by her grandmother Nancy Beedle (Fisher).

She falls in love with Royal Renshaw (Belasco), who is the son of the wealthy social climber Sophia Shuttles (Ashton) by her first husband.

When his mother finds out, she forces him to take a yachting holiday and, telling Jenny that he has abandoned her, convinces her to annul the marriage.

Jolanda, however, has become a drug fiend, after initially being given dope by local tea room owner Polly Primrose (Wallace) as a cure for a headache.

Mary Miles Minter and her sister Margaret Shelby in "Jenny Be Good" (1920)
Lantern Slide for "Jenny Be Good"