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The Talk of the Town
(1918) American
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Allan Holubar

Cast: Dorothy Phillips [Genevra French], George Fawcett [Major French], Clarissa Selwyn [Aunt Harriet], William Stowell [Lawrence Tabor], Lon Chaney [Jack Langhorne], Gloria Joy [Genevra, at age 5], Una Fleming [dancer], Charles Hill Mailes, ZaSu Pitts, Mrs. Griffith, William Burgess, Mr. Bainbridge, George Lewis

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [A Universal Special Attraction]. / Scenario by Allan Holubar, from the novelette Discipline and Genevra by Harold Vickers. Cinematography by Fred Granville. / © 28 August 1918 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP12807]. Released 28 September 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Some contemporary sources spell the character name Langhome and Lanchome.

Drama: Romance.

Survival Status: (unknown)

Listing updated: 27 April 2006.

References: Edmonds-BigU p. 96; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 30; Spehr-American p. 100 : Website-AFI.