{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Giving Becky a Chance | image = | alt = | caption = | director = Howard Estabrook | producer = Oliver Morosco | screenplay = Lois Zellner<br>Edith Kennedy | starring = Vivian Martin<br>Jack Holt<br>Jack Richardson<br>Pietro Sosso<br>Alice Knowland | music = | cinematography = James Van Trees | editing = | studio = Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{Film date|1917|6|7}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }}
'''''Giving Becky a Chance''''' is a 1917 American drama silent film directed by Howard Estabrook, and written by Lois Zellner and Edith Kennedy. The film stars Vivian Martin, Jack Holt, Jack Richardson, Pietro Sosso and Alice Knowland. The film was released on June 7, 1917, by Paramount Pictures.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://silenthollywood.com/givingbeckachance1917.html|title=Giving Becky a Chance, 1917|author=Kay Shackleton|publisher=Silent Hollywood|accessdate=2 January 2015|archive-date=September 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917051923/http://silenthollywood.com/givingbeckachance1917.html|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Giving Becky a Chance |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/14572-GIVING-BECKYACHANCE |access-date=2025-12-26 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref>
==Plot== {{no plot|date=August 2020}}
== Cast == *Vivian Martin as Becky Knight *Jack Holt as Tom Fielding *Jack Richardson as Ross Benson *Pietro Sosso as Mr. Knight *Alice Knowland as Mrs. Knight
== Censorship == Before ''Giving Becky a Chance'' could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the removal of a scene where dancing girls are smoking.<ref>{{Cite book |last= |url=http://archive.org/details/completelistofmo124kans |title=A Complete list of motion picture films |date=1917 |publisher=Kansas State Printing Plant |others= |location=Topeka |pages=8 |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== * ''The House That Shadows Built'' (1931), a short promotional film celebrating Paramount's 20th anniversary, includes a clip from this film.
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0175670|Giving Becky a Chance}}
Category:1917 films Category:1917 English-language films Category:American silent drama films Category:1917 drama films Category:Paramount Pictures films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent feature films Category:1917 American films Category:English-language drama films
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