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Adapted from
  
Lombardi, ltd.

Director
  
Jack Conway

Genres
  
Silent film, Comedy

Country
  
United States


Language
  
Silent film (English intertitles)

Writer
  
Fanny Hatton
,
Frederic Hatton
,
June Mathis

Release date
  
1919 (1919)

Cast
  
Jean Acker
,
Alice Lake
,
Juanita Hansen
,
Ann May
,
Vera Lewis

Related Jack Conway movies
  
Viva Villa! (1934), The Smart Set, High Barbaree (1947), While the City Sleeps (1928), Just a Gigolo (1931)

Lombardi, Ltd. (also sometimes styled Lombardi Limited in publicity materials) is a surviving 1919 American feature silent film. It was adapted by June Mathis from a 1917 play of the same name by Frederick and Fanny Hatton, and directed by Jack Conway. Warner Baxter had an early uncredited minor role in the film.

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Plot

Tito Lombardi struggles Fifth Avenue couture house is spiraling into financial afloat. Through a Broadway investor he meets and falls for a showgirl who soon proves to be a gold-digger; his attractive but plain female assistant Norah loves him but has never made her feelings known. With money from a third-party inheritance and some ingenuity by Norah, the House of Lombardi is resurrected. Lombardi and Norah find true love together.

Preservation status

  • A print is preserved at the George Eastman House donated by the MGM.

    • References

    Lombardi, Ltd. Wikipedia
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    Lombardi, Ltd IMDb