The Demi-Virgin
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The Demi-Virgin is a three-act play written by Avery Hopwood. Producer Albert H. Woods staged it on Broadway, where it was a hit during the 1921–22 season. The play is a bedroom farce about former cou
Broadway program
Avery Hopwood wrote the play in 1921.
Magistrate William McAdoo ruled the play was obscene.
Ads for a touring production traded on the play's notoriety.
The Girl in the Limousine is a play written by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood. The story is a bedroom farce about a man who accidentally finds himself undressed in the bedroom of his ex-girlfriend.
The Demi-Virgin
…commissioned originals and adapted foreign farces, and for Hopwood, who was one of the most successful authors in the genre. Their first work together was The Girl in the Limousine in 1919, which Hopwood revised from an earlier script by Wilson Collison. Hopwood then helped revise Ladies' Night in 1920 and Getting Gertie's Garter…
Doris Kenyon as Betty Neville
Lobby card for the film adaptation