His Rise to Fame

His Rise to Fame
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Directed by	Bernard McEveety
Written by	Victoria Moore
Produced by	Samuel Zierler
Starring	George Walsh Peggy Shaw Bradley Barker
Cinematography	Marcel Le Picard
Production company	Excellent Pictures
Distributed by	Excellent Pictures
Release date	February 15, 1927 (1927-02-15)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

His Rise to Fame is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Bernard McEveety and starring George Walsh, Peggy Shaw, and Bradley Barker. ^[1]

Plot

A drifter meets a dancer in a cabaret and reforms his life, becoming a championship-winning boxer.

Cast

• George Walsh as Jerry Drake
• Peggy Shaw as Laura White
• Bradley Barker as Hubert Strief
• Mildred Reardon as Helen Lee
• Martha Petelle as 'Ma' Drake
• William Nally as Montana Mack
• Ivan Linow as Bull Vickers

Preservation

With no prints of His Rise to Fame located in any film archives, ^[2] it is a lost film.

References

1. Munden p. 355
2. Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: His Rise to Fame

Bibliography

• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

• His Rise to Fame at IMDb