One Glorious Day
AKA [The Melancholy Spirit]
(1922) American
B&W : Five reels / 5100 feet
Directed by James Cruze

Cast: Will Rogers [Professor Ezra Botts], Lila Lee [Molly McIntyre], Alan Hale [Ben Wadley], John Fox (Johnny Fox) [‘Ek’], George Nichols [Pat Curran], Emily Rait [Mrs. McIntyre], Calrence Burton [Bert Snead], Knute Erickson

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Production supervised by Frank E. Woods. Scenario by Walter Woods, from a screen story by [?] James Cruze and/or Water Woods? and A.B. Barringer (Barry Barringer). Cinematography by Karl Brown. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 31 January 1922 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP17509]. Released 5 February 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Originally planned for Roscoe Arbuckle before the Virginia Rappé death scandal (under the working title The Melancholy Spirit); Paramount then assigned the film to Will Rogers under the working title, Ek, a Fighting Soul. [?] Website-IMDb lists the release date as 29 January 1922.

Comedy.

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost (a nitrate print of the film may survive in a European film archive).

Listing updated: 13 May 2008.

References: Bardèche-History p. 210; Dardis-Keaton p. 80; Edmonds-Arbuckle pp. 136-137, 178, 224, 269; Everson-American p. 323; Marrero-Vintage p. 4; Weaver-Twenty p. 309 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.