Mice and Men | |
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![]() Film's promotion in 1916 newspaper | |
Directed by | J. Searle Dawley |
Written by | Hugh Ford (scenario) |
Based on | Mice and Men 1901 play by Madeleine Lucette Ryley |
Produced by | Daniel Frohman |
Starring | Marguerite Clark |
Cinematography | H. Lyman Broening |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Country | United States |
Languages | Silent 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]
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]
The film was praised in reviews in The Moving Picture World and Motion Picture News. [3]