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Classified
Classified
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alfred Santell; Scott Beal (assistant)
Written by	June Mathis
Based on	Classified; by Edna Ferber
Produced by	Corinne Griffith
Starring	Corinne Griffith
Cinematography	Harold Rosson
Edited by	Cyril Gardner
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release date	October 11, 1925;
Running time	7 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Classified is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Alfred Santell and produced by and starring Corinne Griffith. It was based on a novel by Edna Ferber and distributed through First National Pictures.^[1]

The film was remade as Hard to Get by First National (subsidiary by Warner Brothers) in 1929 as an early talkie for Dorothy Mackaill, a Corinne Griffith rival at First National.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[2] a telephone operator in the classified advertisement department of a metropolitan daily newspaper longs to get away from her drab surroundings and onto Fifth Avenue. She accepts many invitations from men to ride down the avenue with them in their cars, but up to the time she meets one rich young man is successful in evading their advances. Then she meets a handsome chap who drives a flivver, and, despite its poor condition, is interested in him nevertheless. One night after a motor trip into the country that does not end well, she decides that it is the man of the flivver she wants.

Cast

Corinne Griffith as Babs Comet
Jack Mulhall as Lloyd Whiting
Ward Crane as Spencer Clark
Carroll Nye as Mart Comet
Charles Murray as Old Man Comet
Edythe Chapman as "Maw" Comet
Julie Bishop as Jeanette (credited as Jacqueline Wells)
George Sidney as Weinstein
Bernard Randall as Bernstein

Preservation

A print of Classified has been preserved at the Library of Congress and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Classified
^ "New Pictures: Classified", Exhibitors Herald, 23 (04), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 50, October 17, 1925, retrieved October 18, 2022 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Classified
^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at the Library of Congress, p. 31, c.1978 by The American Film Institute
^ Progressive Silent Film List: Classified at silentera.com