"Coquette" . . "Coquette"@en . "Drama" . "Drama"@en . . . "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."@en . . . . . . . . . "Plays" . . . . . . . . . . . "Fiction films"@en . . "Coquette a drama of the American south"@en . "\"Norma Besant, a heartless belle of a southern town, falls in love with Michael Jeffrey, a crude and prideful mountaineer. Her father, a physician, is so displeased that he refuses to allow them to marry, orders Jeffrey out of his house, and, half-crazed, shoots and kills Jeffrey to preserve his family's good name. While he is awaiting his trial Besant commits suicide in a final effort to atone to his daughter for her unhappiness\"--AFI catalog, 1921-1930." . "Feature films"@en . . . "Coquette (Film)" . . . . "Film adaptations"@en . . . . . "Features" . . . . . . . . . . . .