The Home Town Girl

The Home Town Girl is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Robert G. Vignola, written by Oscar Graeve and Edith Kennedy, and starring Vivian Martin, Ralph Graves, Lee Phelps, Carmen Phillips, Stanhope Wheatcroft, and Herbert Standing.

[1][2] Nell Fanshawe (Martin) has so many suitors that she does not know what to do, and against her parents’ wishes she looks with favor upon John Stanley (Graves), who works in the village drug store.

John becomes ambitious and goes to New York City to seek his fortune.

He sells some valuable rugs to a wealthy lady and is persuaded by a discharged clerk to try his hand at cards.

After he loses all of the firm's money in a poker game, he runs away.

Still from the film: Vivian Martin at left, Carmen Phillips at right