The Gold Diggers (1923 film) The Gold Diggers (1923 film) The Gold Diggers is a lost Warner Bros. silent film directed by Harry Beaumont with screenplay by Grant Carpenter based on the play "The Gold Diggers" by Avery Hopwood which ran for 282 performances on Broadway in 1919 and 1920. Both the play and the film were produced by David Belasco. The film stars Hope Hampton, Wyndham Standing, and Louise Fazenda. It was also the (uncredited) film debut of Louise Beavers. The story of "The Gold Diggers" was filmed again as a talkie in 1929 as "Gold Diggers of Broadway", which is now lost, and
Harry Samuel Harry Samuel Sir Harry Simon Samuel (1853–1934) was an English Member of Parliament for Limehouse and then Norwood in London. He was an advocate of protection in trade and he campaigned against free trade during his political career. Henry Samuel was born in Marylebone, London on 3 August 1853. He was educated at Eastbourne College and then St John's College, Cambridge, Cambridge, where he received a Bachelor of Arts. He became a partner in the firm of Montefiore & Company. Samuel retired from business to enter politics with the Unionist party and, in 1889, he became a prospective candidate in