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Marceline Day on the set of The Boy Friend (1926) with director
Monta Bell. Photo: Silent Era low-res collection. |
The Boy Friend
(1926) American
B&W : Six reels / [?] 5529 or 5584? feet
Directed by Monta Bell
Cast: Marceline Day [Ida May Harper], John Harron [Joe Pond], George K. Arthur [book agent], Ward Crane [Lester White], Gertrude Astor [Mrs. White], Otto Hoffman [Mr. Harper], Maidel Turner [Mrs. Wilson], Gwen Lee [Pettie Wilson], Elizabeth Patterson [Mrs. Harper], Edgar Norton, Clarence Geldart, Evelyn Atkinson, Aileen Manning, Estelle Clark, Virginia Bradford, André Bushe, Ruth Handford, Dorothy Seay, Archie Burke
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / Scenario by Alice D.G. Miller, from the play The Book of Charm by John Alexander Kirkpatrick. Set design by Cedric Gibbons and Merrill Pye. Costume design by Kathleen Kay, Maude Marsh and André-ani. Cinematography by Henry Sharp. Edited by Blanche Sewell. / © 26 July 1926 [LP22985]. New York premiere 14 August 1926. General release 31 October 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Patterson’s film debut.
Comedy-Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.0555.
Survival Status: The film is presumed lost.
Keywords: Books: Etiquette - Courtships - Envy - Letters - Parties - Small-town life - Stores: Drugstores: Clerks - USA: New York: New York
Listing updated: 20 October 2004.
References: AFI-F2 n. F2.0555; Eames-MGM p. 32 : ClasIm-301 p. 47.
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