The Crowded Hour

The Crowded Hour is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by E. Mason Hopper and starring Bebe Daniels.

It is based on the 1918 Broadway play,[1] The Crowded Hour, by Channing Pollock and Edgar Selwyn.

[2][3] As described in a film magazine review,[4] Peggy and her pal Matt Wilde are performers in a "Follies" act when Billy Laidlaw sees her and falls in love with her despite the fact that he is already married.

Peggy is working as a switchboard operator when she finds it a question of saving Billy or a platoon of French soldiers, she chooses the latter.

Peggy stoically resolves to forget Billy and make amends with her partner Matt.

Lobby Card of the film