Mice and Men (film)

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Mice and Men
Miceandmen - 1916 - newspaper ad.jpg
Film's promotion in 1916 newspaper
Directed by J. Searle Dawley
Written by Hugh Ford (scenario)
Based onMice and Men
1901 play
by Madeleine Lucette Ryley
Produced by Daniel Frohman
Starring Marguerite Clark
Cinematography H. Lyman Broening
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • January 10, 1916 (1916-01-10)
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
(English intertitles)

Mice and Men is a lost 1916 silent romance film directed by J. Searle Dawley, starring Marguerite Clark, and based on a 1901 Broadway play, Mice and Men by Madeleine Lucette Ryley. [1]

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Plot

In Virginia, Mark Embury, a rich man, having made desperate attempts to find a wife, decides to raise a young girl he has adopted, Peggy, in order to marry her. But she falls in love with George Lovell, Embury's nephew. [2]

Cast

Reception

The film was praised in reviews in The Moving Picture World and Motion Picture News. [3]

References

  1. ↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Mice and Men(Wayback)
  2. ↑ Ebner, David; Langman, Larry (September 30, 2001). Hollywood's Image of the South: A Century of Southern Films. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN   978-0-313-01697-4.
  3. ↑ Nunn, William Curtis (1981). Marguerite Clark, America's Darling of Broadway and the Silent Screen. TCU Press. ISBN   978-0-912646-69-5.


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