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The Case of Becky
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Frank Reicher
Cast: Blanche Sweet [Dorothy / Becky], Theodore Roberts [Balzamo], James Neill [Doctor Emerson], Carlyle Blackwell [Doctor John Arnold], Jane Wolff [Carrie, Balzano’s assistant], Gertrude Kellar [Miss Emerson, Doctor Emerson’s sister]
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Margaret Turnbull, from the play The Case of Becky by Edward J. Locke. Assistant director, Frank Lidell. Cinematography by Walter Stradling. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky, in association with David Belasco. / © 27 August 1915 by Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated [LU6211]. Released 13 September 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Reicher’s debut as film director. The play was subsequently filmed as The Case of Becky (1921).
Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0616.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Hypnotism - Multiple personalities
Listing updated: 23 January 2013.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0616; Drew-Speaking p. 286; Tarbox-Lost p. 245 : Website-AFI : with additional information provided by Bruce Calvert.
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