Somebody's Darling is a 1925 British

Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

 silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by George A. Cooper

George A. Cooper (director)

George A. Cooper was a British screenwriter and film director.-Selected filmography:* The Eleventh Commandment * Claude Duval * Settled Out of Court * Somebody's Darling * If Youth But Knew...

 and starring Betty Balfour

Betty Balfour

Betty Balfour was an English screen actress, popular during the silent era, and known as the "British Mary Pickford" and "Britain's Queen of Happiness"...

, Rex O'Malley

Rex O'Malley

Rex O'Malley was a British actor.. His mother was Irish and a seamstress. At one stage she worked for Queen Victoria as her dressmaker and had a store on Sloane Street, London.-Selected filmography:* Somebody's Darling...

 and Fred Raynham

Fred Raynham

-Selected filmography:* The Hound of the Baskervilles * The Passionate Friends * The Wandering Jew * The Presumption of Stanley Hay, MP * A Romance of Mayfair * Somebody's Darling...

. A young woman who believes herself to be an orphan rediscovers her family when she is left a large inheritance but a sinister uncle tries to cheat her out of money. The film marked an attempt by Balfour to avoid being typecast

Typecasting (acting)

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 in her popular role as the Cockney

Cockney

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 Squibs

Squibs (1921 film)

Squibs is a 1921 British silent comedy film directed by George Pearson and starring Betty Balfour, Hugh E. Wright and Fred Groves. It was followed by three sequels starting with Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep and a 1935 remake.-Cast:...

 by playing an upper-class heiress. She defended her move by declaring "I don't have to wear any shabby or sombre dresses for this part. I go out and spend lost of money on beautiful paquin gowns and frocks and wraps".

Cast

• Betty Balfour - Joan Meredith
• Rex O'Malley
  Rex O'Malley
  Rex O'Malley was a British actor.. His mother was Irish and a seamstress. At one stage she worked for Queen Victoria as her dressmaker and had a store on Sloane Street, London.-Selected filmography:* Somebody's Darling...
  
   - Jack Esmonds
• Fred Raynham
  Fred Raynham
  -Selected filmography:* The Hound of the Baskervilles * The Passionate Friends * The Wandering Jew * The Presumption of Stanley Hay, MP * A Romance of Mayfair * Somebody's Darling...
  
   - J.W. Jordan
• J. Fisher White - Grandfather
• Minna Grey
  Minna Grey
  -Selected filmography:* The Second Mrs. Tanqueray * The Manxman * Onward Christian Soldiers * Mrs. Thompson * If Four Walls Told * The York Mystery * Somebody's Darling...
  
   - Miss Jordan
• Clarence Blakiston - Sir John Esmonds
• A. Bromley Davenport
  A. Bromley Davenport
  Arthur Henry Bromley-Davenport , better known as A. Bromley Davenport, was an English actor born in Baginton, Warwickshire, England, UK....
  
   - Sleeper
• Clifton Boyne - Publisher
• Jack Harris
  Jack Harris
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  - Potman