Mary of the Movies
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Directed byJohn McDermott[1]
Story by
- Louis Lewyn[2]
- Marion Mack[3]
Produced by
- Louis Lewyn
- Jack Cohen[1]
Starring
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| Directed by | John McDermott[1] |
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| Distributed by | Film Booking Offices[1] |
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Running time | 6[5] or 7[6] reels; 6,449[2] or 6,500[1] feet |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Mary of the Movies is a 1923 American silent semi-autobiographical comedy[7] film based on the career of Marion Mack.[3] It was written by Mack[3] and her husband Louis Lewyn,[2] and stars Mack and Creighton Hale.[1] Hale and director John McDermott play fictionalized versions of themselves in the film, which was also directed by McDermott.
It was produced by the CBC Film Sales Corporation (which would later become Columbia Pictures) and distributed by Film Booking Offices.[1] A partial print of the film exists in Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.[7]
Cast
- Principals
- Marion Mack as Mary, the girl[2][8]
- Florence Lee as her mother
- Mary Kane as her sister
- Jack Perrin as Jack, her brother
- Harry Cornelli as "Lait" Mayle, the postman
- John Geough as Reel S. Tate, the squire
- Raymond Cannon as Oswald Tate, his son
- Ray Hanford as the old man
- Rosemary Cooper as Jane, the extra girl
- Creighton Hale as himself, the boy
- Francis McDonald as James Seiler, a salesman
- Henry Burrows as the producer
- John McDermott as the director
- Celebrity cameos
- David Butler
- Marjorie Daw
- Elliott Dexter
- Louise Fazenda
- Alec B. Francis
- Wanda Hawley
- Rex Ingram
- J. Warren Kerrigan
- Barbara La Marr
- Edward LeSaint
- Bessie Love
- Douglas MacLean
- Tom Moore
- Carmel Myers
- ZaSu Pitts
- Herbert Rawlinson
- Anita Stewart
- Estelle Taylor
- Rosemary Theby
- Maurice Tourneur
- Richard Travers
- Johnnie Walker
- Bryant Washburn
Production
It was shot at Sunset Gower Studios.[citation needed]
