Coquette

Mary Pickford’s first role in a talkie won an Oscar for her performance as a wealthy flapper from the South. Norma Besant (Pickford) has fallen in love with a man (Johnny Mac Brown) much less than her equal in economic class, and her father (John St. Polis) strenuously objects., A Southern belle must choose between three different suitors, and when she chooses the least viable of them, her father chases after the couple with a gun, which leads to a violent altercation.