Man Bait (1926 film)

Man Bait
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Directed by	Donald Crisp
Written by	Douglas Z. Doty
Based on	"Man Bait" by Norman Houston
Starring	Marie Prevost Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Kenneth Thomson
Cinematography	Harold Rosson
Production company	Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date	December 27, 1926 (1926-12-27) [1]
Running time	6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Man Bait is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Donald Crisp and starring Marie Prevost, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Kenneth Thomson. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Plot

After she is fired from her role as a shopgirl in a department store, Madge finds work as a taxi dancer. At the dance hall she meets and falls in love with a young man from a wealthy background.

Cast

• Marie Prevost as Madge Dreyer
• Kenneth Thomson as Gerald Sanford
• Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Jeff Sanford
• Louis Natheaux as Delancy Hasbrouck
• Eddie Gribbon as Red Welch
• Betty Francisco as Betty Gerber
• Adda Gleason as Florence Hasbrouck
• Sally Rand as Nancy
• Fritzi Ridgeway as Gloria

Preservation

With no prints of Man Bait located in any film archives, it is a lost film. ^[5]

References

1. Progressive Silent Film List: Man Bait at silentera.com
2. "Man Bait (1926) - Overview, TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
3. McCaffrey, Donald W.; Jacobs, Christopher P. (1999). Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 95. ISBN   978-0-313-30345-6.
4. Vance & Maietta p. 198
5. List of 7200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films 1912-29. (last updated 12/29/16) Library of Congress (PDF)

Bibliography

• Jeffrey Vance & Tony Maietta. Douglas Fairbanks . University of California Press, 2008. ISBN   978-0-520-25667-5

External links

• Man Bait at IMDb