Coquette
Subtitle: a play in three acts
By: by George Abbott and Ann Preston Bridgers.
Contributors: Bridgers, Ann Preston.
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co.
Published: 1928
Place of publication: New York; London [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Description: Norma Besant, daughter of a Southern doctor, is an incorrigible flirt and has many boys on her string. She begins to favor Michael Jeffrey, who, shiftless and hot-tempered but fundamentally honorable, is warned off by her father. When Michael returns after a long absence, the pair are innocently compromised, and Dr. Besant's old-South paternal rage brings tragedy when he shoots and kills the young suitor and is put on trial for the crime. --Description based on original 1929 film version which starred Mary Pickford.