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Lon Chaney and Anna May Wong.
Photo: Silent Era low-res collection. |
Bits of Life
(1921) American
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Marshall Neilan
Cast: Wesley Barry, Rockcliffe Fellows, Lon Chaney, Noah Beery (Sr.), John Bowers, Teddy Sampson, Dorothy Mackaill, Edythe Chapman, Frederick Burton, Tammany Young, Anna May Wong, James Bradbury Jr.
Marshall Neilan Productions, Incorporated, production; distributed by Associated First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Lucrita Squires, from stories by Marshall Neilan. / © 1921 [LP17129]. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Four short stories make up this feature. One episode was entitled “The Man Who Heard Everything.”
Drama.
Survival Status: The film is presumed lost.
Keywords: Barbers - Chinese - Deaf persons - Hearing aids
Listing updated: 7 January 2004.
References: Brownlow-Parade p. 266; Drew-Speaking p. 237; Schuchman-Hollywood pp. 35, 110; Weaver-Twenty p. 76.
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