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Blackbirds (1915 film)

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Cinematography
  
Charles Rosher

Duration
  

Director
  
J. P. McGowan

Genres
  
Drama, Silent film

Country
  
United States


Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Release date
  
October 14, 1915

Writer
  
Harry James Smith (play), Margaret Turnbull (scenario)

Produced by
  
Jesse L. Lasky, Morris Gest

Similar movies
  
Related J P McGowan movies

Blackbirds is an extant 1915 American silent film drama produced by Jesse Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The film marks an early starring screen appearance by actress Laura Hope Crews in this her second motion picture. The film is based on a 1913 Broadway play, Blackbirds, by Harry James Smith which also starred Miss Crews. This is a surviving film at the Library of Congress.

It was remade in a 1920 film of the same name starring Justine Johnstone.

Cast

  • Laura Hope Crews - Leonie Sobatsky
  • Thomas Meighan - Jack Doggins/Honorable Nevil Trask
  • George Gebhardt - Bechel
  • Raymond Hatton - Hawke, Jr.
  • Jane Wolfe - Countess Maroff (* as Jane Wolf)
  • Florence Dagmar - Miss Crocker
  • Evelyn Desmond - Mrs. Crocker
  • Edwin Harley - Mr. Crocker (* as Ed Harley)
  • Frederick Wilson - Abie Isaacs

    • References

    Blackbirds (1915 film) Wikipedia
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    Blackbirds (1915 film) IMDb


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