God Gave Me Twenty Cents

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God Gave Me Twenty Cents
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Directed by Herbert Brenon
Screenplay by Elizabeth Meehan
John Russell
Based onGod Gave Me Twenty Cents by Dixie Willson
Produced by Jesse L. Lasky
Adolph Zukor
Starring Lois Moran
Lya De Putti
Jack Mulhall
William Collier, Jr.
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Leo Feodoroff
Rosa Rosanova
Cinematography Leo Tover
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • November 19, 1926 (1926-11-19)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

God Gave Me Twenty Cents is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and written by Elizabeth Meehan and John Russell. The film stars Lois Moran, Lya De Putti, Jack Mulhall, William Collier, Jr., Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Leo Feodoroff, and Rosa Rosanova. The film was released on November 20, 1926, by Paramount Pictures, [1] [2] following a gala premiere on November 19 that opened the Paramount Theatre in Manhattan. [3] It is based on the novel God Gave Me Twenty Cents by Dixie Willson, subsequently remade by Paramount British as a sound film Ebb Tide in 1932.

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Preservation

With no prints of God Gave Me Twenty Cents located in any film archives, [4] it is a lost film. [5]

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References

  1. Hal Erickson (2015). "God-Gave-Me-Twenty-Cents - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on February 8, 2015. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  2. "God Gave Me Twenty Cents". AFI Catalog of Feature Films . Retrieved December 11, 2023.
  3. Slide, Anthony (1998). The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry . Scarecrow Press. p.  156. ISBN   978-0-8108-6636-2.
  4. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: God Gave Me Twenty Cents
  5. God Gave Me Twenty Cents at Arne Anderson's Lost Film Files: Lost Paramount films - 1926 Archived August 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine