Cameo Kirby (1923 film)

1923 film

  • John Gilbert
  • Gertrude Olmstead
CinematographyGeorge Schneiderman
Production
company
Fox Film Corporation
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • October 21, 1923 (1923-10-21) (USA)
Running time
70 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Cameo Kirby is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by John Ford which starred John Gilbert and Gertrude Olmstead and featuring Jean Arthur in her onscreen debut. It was Ford's first film credited as John Ford instead of Jack Ford.[1] The film is based on a 1908 play by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson. The story had been filmed as a silent before in 1914 with Dustin Farnum, who had originated the role on Broadway in 1909. The film was remade as a talking musical film in 1930.

Plot

Cast

  • John Gilbert as Cameo Kirby
  • Gertrude Olmstead as Adele Randall
  • Alan Hale as Colonel Moreau
  • Eric Mayne as Colonel Randall
  • W. E. Lawrence as Tom Randall (as William E. Lawrence)
  • Richard Tucker as Cousin Aaron Randall
  • Phillips Smalley as Judge Playdell
  • Jack McDonald as Larkin Bunce
  • Jean Arthur as Ann Playdell
  • Eugenie Forde as Madame Davezac
  • Frank Baker (uncredited)
  • Ken Maynard (uncredited)
  • George Reed as Croup (uncredited)
  • Ynez Seabury (uncredited)

Preservation

Prints of Cameo Kirby are maintained in the UCLA Film and Television Archive and at the Cinemateca Portuguesa (Portuguese Film Archive), in Lisbon.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Cameo Kirby". Silent Era. Archived from the original on March 8, 2022. Retrieved March 3, 2008.
  2. ^ "Cameo Kirby". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Archived from the original on January 9, 2015. Retrieved January 9, 2014.

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