Dangerous Toys (film)

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Dangerous Toys
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Marguerite Clayton in the film
Directed by Samuel R. Brodsky (as Samuel R. Bradley) [1]
Written by Edmund Goulding
Starring Frank Losee
Marion Elmore
Marguerite Clayton
Cinematography Arthur A. Cadwell
Edited by J.J. Kiley
Production
company
Bradley Feature Film Company
Distributed byFederated Film Exchanges of America
Release date
  • 8 February 1921 (1921-02-08)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Dangerous Toys is a 1921 American silent film directed by Samuel R. Brodsky (as Samuel R. Bradley) and starring Frank Losee, Marion Elmore and Marguerite Clayton. [2] One of six features directed by Brodsky, it was filmed at his Cleveland studio at the Samuel Andrews mansion on Euclid Avenue (now the studio of WEWS-TV). [3] It is considered to be a lost film. [1]

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  2. Kennedy, Matthew (2004). Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory: Hollywood's Genius Bad Boy. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 300. ISBN   978-0299197704.
  3. "Andrews's Folly". The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University . Retrieved February 17, 2021.