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Exit Smiling
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6461 feet
Directed by Sam Taylor

Cast: Beatrice Lillie [Violet], Jack Pickford [Jimmy Marsh], Doris Lloyd [Olga], DeWitt Jennings [Orlando Wainwright], Franklin Pangborn [Cecil Lovelace], Harry C. Myers [Jesse Watson], Tenen Holtz [Tod Powell], William Gillespie [Jack Hastings], Louise Lorraine [Phyllis Tichnor], D’Arcy Corrigan [Macomber], Carl Richards [Dave], Major Roup [young boy in audience]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Sam Taylor and Tim Whelan, from a play by Marc Connelly. Set design by Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope. Costume design by André-ani. Cinematography by Andrew Barlatier. Film editor, Daniel J. Gray. Intertitles written by Joseph Farnham. / © 29 November 1926 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP23377]. Premiered 6 November 1926 in New York, New York. Released 14 November 1926. Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Lillie’s film debut.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.1582.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Actors

Listing updated: 29 March 2009.

References: AFI-F2 n. F2.1582; Baer-Film p. 80; Brownlow-Parade p. 296; Eames-MGM p. 35; Limbacher-Feature p. 74; Shipman-Cinema p. 93; Sinyard-Silent p. 51; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 147-149 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.