Mice and Men is a lost 1916 silent romance film directed by J. Searle Dawley, starring Marguerite Clark, and based on a 1901 Broadway play, Mice and Men by Madeleine Lucette Ryley.[1]
Plot
In Virginia, Mark Embury, a rich man, having made desperate attempts to find a wife, decides to raise a young girl he has adopted, Peggy, in order to marry her. But she falls in love with George Lovell, Embury's nephew.[2]
Cast
- Marguerite Clark - Peggy
- Marshall Neilan - Captain George Lovell
- Charles Waldron - Mark Embury
- Clarence Handyside - Roger Goodlake
- Maggie Fisher - Mrs. Deborrah
- Helen Dahl - Joanna
- Robert Conville - Minister Goodlake/Servant to Goodlake
- William McKey - Embury's Servant
- Ada Deaves - Matron
- Francesca Warde - Mammy
Reception
The film was praised in reviews in The Moving Picture World and Motion Picture News.[3]
References
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Mice and Men(Wayback)
- ^ Ebner, David; Langman, Larry (September 30, 2001). Hollywood's Image of the South: A Century of Southern Films. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-0-313-01697-4.
- ^ Nunn, William Curtis (1981). Marguerite Clark, America's Darling of Broadway and the Silent Screen. TCU Press. ISBN 978-0-912646-69-5.
External links
- Mice and Men at IMDb
- Mice and Men, AllMovie.com
- Mice and Men at the TCM Movie Database
- Mice and Men at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Mice and men, a romantic comedy in four acts by Madeleine Lucette Ryley
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