Main Street (1923 film)

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Main Street
Main Street lobby card.jpg
Directed by Harry Beaumont
Written by Julien Josephson
Based on Main Street
by Sinclair Lewis
Starring Florence Vidor
Monte Blue
Alan Hale, Sr.
Louise Fazenda
Cinematography Edwin B. Du Par
Homer Scott
Edited by Harry Beaumont
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • April 25, 1923 (1923-04-25)
Running time
96 minutes (9 reels)
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)
Budget$270,000 [1]
Box office$556,000 [1]

Main Street is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the 1920 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Harry Beaumont. A Broadway play version of the novel was produced in 1921. [2] It was the first film to be released after the foundation of Warner Bros. Pictures on April 4, 1923.

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Plot

As described in a film magazine review, [3] a young city woman with advanced ideas marries a small town doctor, and go to live in a backwoods burg. Her irritation at the small talk and petty incidents which make up the lives of the townspeople finally culminate in her leaving home and going to work as a government clerk in Washington, D.C. After a time her husband follows her there and there is a reunion.

Cast

Box office

According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $510,000 domestically and $46,000 foreign. [1]

Preservation status

Main Street is a lost film. [4] [5] [6] Warner Bros. records of the film's negative have a notation, "Junked 12/27/48" (i.e., December 27, 1948). Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to the nitrate decomposition of its pre-1933 films.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 2 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  2. Main Street as produced on Broadway at the National Theatre October 5, 1921 to December 1921; IBDb.com
  3. "Tried and Proven Pictures: Main Street". Exhibitors Trade Review. New York: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation: 42. March 8, 1924. Retrieved September 26, 2022.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. Progressive Silent Film List: Main Street at silentera.com
  5. Main Street at American Silent Feature Film Survival Database
  6. 1957 Movies from AAP Warner Bros Features & Cartoons Sales Book Directed at TV