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Marion Davies.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Lights of Old Broadway
(1925) United States of America
Color/B&W : Seven reels / [?] 6344, 6437 or 6595? feet
Directed by Monta Bell + [Marshall Neilan]
Cast: Marion Davies [Fely; and Anne], Conrad Nagel [Dick De Rhonde], Frank Currier [Lambert De Rhonde, his father], George K. Arthur [Andy], Charles McHugh [Shamus O’Tandy], Eleanor Lawson [Mrs. O’Tandy], Julia Swayne Gordon [Mrs. De Rhondo], Mathew Betz [‘Red’ Hawkes], Wilbur Higby [Fowler]; Bodil Rosing [Widow Gorman], George Bunny [Tony Pastor], George Harris [Joe Weber], Bernard Berger [Lew Fields], Frank Glendon [Thomas A. Edison], Buck Black [the young Teddy Roosevelt], Karl Dane [Roosevelt’s father], William De Vaull [De Rhonde’s butler]
Cosmopolitan Productions production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn Distributing Corporation [A Monta Bell Production; A Cosmopolitan Production; A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Produced by Irving Thalberg. Scenario by Carey Wilson, from the adaptation by Carey Wilson of the play Merry Wives of Gotham by Laurence Eyre. Settings (production design) by Cedric Gibbons and Ben Carré. Wardrobe designed (costume design) by Ethel P. Chaffin. Photography (cinematography) by Ira Morgan (Ira H. Morgan). Film editor, Blanche Sewell. Titles (intertitles written) by Joseph W. Farnham. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / © 5 November 1925 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation [LP22049]. Premiered 1 November 1925 in New York. New York. Released [?] 18 October or 8 November? 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Technicolor sequences. / MGM production number 239. Working title: Merry Wives of Gotham. MGM release number 615. [?] Davies-Times p. 246 lists the release length as 6344 feet; Website-AFI lists the release length as 6595 feet. Neilan was responsible directing retakes on the film.
Comedy-Drama: Romance.
Survival status: Print exists in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Children: Orphans - Twins - Vaudeville
Listing updated: 28 January 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Davies-Times p. 246; Eames-MGM p. 19 : Website-AFI.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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