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The Song and Dance Man
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6997 feet
Directed by Herbert Brenon

Cast: Tom Moore [Happy Farrell], Bessie Love [Leola Lane], Harrison Ford [Joseph Murdock], Norman Trevor [Charles Nelson], Bobby Watson [Fred Carroll], Josephine Drake [Jane Rosemond], George Nash [Inspector Craig], William B. Mack [Tom Crosby], Helen Lindroth [Marsha Lane], Jane Jennings [Ma Carroll]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Paul Schofield, from the play The Song and Dance Man by George M. Cohan. Art direction by Julian Boone Fleming. Cinematography by James Howe (James Wong Howe). Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 11 February 1926 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP22393]. Released 8 February 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive [incomplete 35mm positive (missing reels 1 and 2)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 8 September 2014

References: FilmYearBook-1926 p. 10 : Website-AFI : with additional information provided by Pete Jones.