Women Love Diamonds is a 1927 American black and white silent melodrama directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Pauline Starke, Owen Moore, and Lionel Barrymore.

Mavis Ray (Pauline Starke) is a young debutant living with her mother and with the backing of Hugo Harlan (Lionel Barrymore), whom she calls her uncle.

She is in love with socialite Jerry Croker-Kelley (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), and goes with him to meet his family against Harlan's wishes.

He begins falling for her as well, not caring when Mavis reveals that Harlan is not her uncle, but her lover, and that the woman she calls her mother is actually hired help.

[3] Film critic David Shipman writes that Mavis at first comes across as someone who women guiltily admire and men want to own, but later becomes more sympathetic after having a moral epiphany and becoming a nurse.

[6] Hal Erickson, writing for Rovi, suggests that Garbo's refusal to do the film did not hurt her career at all.