Queen o'Diamonds

CinematographyRoy H. KlaffkiDistributed byFilm Booking Offices of America60 min.CountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Queen o'Diamonds is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Chester Withey and starring Evelyn Brent, Elsa Lorimer, and Phillips Smalley.^[1]

As described in a film magazine review,^[2] chorus girl Jerry Lyon resembles Jeanette Durant, a Broadway star whose husband is an international crook. Jerry, in love with struggling playwright Daniel Hammon, is induced to pose as Jeanette. She becomes involved in a series of wild adventures in which she innocently comes into possession of some stolen diamonds. She meets Ramsey, a theatrical producer, who agrees to star Jerry in Daniel's play, after she has brought the police in time to arrest a gang of desperate criminals.

• Evelyn Brent as Jeanette Durant / Jerry Lyon
• Elsa Lorimer as Mrs. Ramsey
• Phillips Smalley as Mr. Ramsey
• William Bailey as LeRoy Phillips
• Theodore von Eltz as Daniel Hammon
• Edward Peil as Crook

• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

• Queen o'Diamonds at IMDb