The Education of Elizabeth

  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 50 min
  • Premiere: 1921. January 16.

Billie Burke, the real-life wife of Flo Ziegfeld, plays Ziegfeld Follies dancer Elizabeth Banks who falls for a wealthy young man. His parents are shocked--and so is Elizabeth when she decides she'd rather have her beau's nerdish brother. She turns the mouse into a lion so that he'll be a worthy husband.

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Billie Burke

Elizabeth Banks

Edith Sharpe

Lucy Fairfax

Fredric March

Man (uncredited)

Directing

Edward Dillon

Director

Writing

Roy Horniman

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