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Peg o’ My Heart
(1922) United States of America
B&W : [?] Six or Eight? reels
Directed by King Vidor

Cast: Laurette Taylor [Margaret O’Connell], Mahlon Hamilton [Sir Gerald Adair], Russell Simpson [Jim O’Connell], Ethel Grey Terry [Ethel Chichester], Nigel Barrie [Charistian Brent], Lionel Belmore [Hawks], Vera Lewis [Mrs. Chichester], Sidna Beth Ivins (Beth Ivins) [Mrs. Jim O’Connell], D.R.O. Hatswell [Alaric Chichester], Aileen O’Malley (Eileen O’Malley) [Margaret, as a child], Fred Huntly (Fred Huntley) [the butler], Lon Poff [the priest], Mike the dog

Metro Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Mary O'Hara, from the play Peg o’ My Heart by J. Hartley Manners. Production management by J. Hartley Manners. Cinematography by George Barnes. / Released 18 December 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Taylor’s film debut; Taylor was playwright Manners’ wife.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Irish - United Kingdom: England

Listing updated: 8 November 2022.

References: Dowd-Vidor pp. 28, 33-36, 40, 42, 150f; Eames-MGM p. 13; Sherwood-Best pp. xvii, 182 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.