Mice and Men (film)

Mice and Men
Mice and Men
	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
Production; company	Famous Players Film Company
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	January 10, 1916;
Country	United States
Languages	Silent film; (English intertitles)

Last updated October 02, 2025

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]

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

Marguerite Clark - Peggy
Marshall Neilan - Captain George Lovell
Charles Waldron - Mark Embury
Clarence Handyside - Roger Goodlake
Maggie Fisher - Mrs. Deborrah
Helen Dahl - Joanna
Robert Conville - Minister Goodlake/Servant to Goodlake
William McKey - Embury's Servant
Ada Deaves - Matron
Francesca Warde - Mammy

Reception

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

References

↑ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Mice and Men(Wayback)
↑ 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.
↑ Nunn, William Curtis (1981). Marguerite Clark, America's Darling of Broadway and the Silent Screen. TCU Press. ISBN 978-0-912646-69-5.

External links

Mice and Men at IMDb
Mice and Men, AllMovie.com
Mice and Men at the TCM Movie Database
Mice and Men at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Mice and men, a romantic comedy in four acts by Madeleine Lucette Ryley

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[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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