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Director
  
Louis J. Gasnier

Screenplay
  
Olga Printzlau

Language
  
Silent

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Genre
  
Drama, Romance

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Maytime (1923 film) movie poster

Writer
  
Rida Johnson Young
,
Olga Printzlau

Release date
  
November 16, 1923 (1923-11-16)

Story by
  
Rida Johnson Young, Cyrus Wood

Cast
  
Ethel Shannon
(Ottilie Van Zandt),
Harrison Ford
(Richard Wayne),
William Norris
(Matthew),
Clara Bow
(Alice Tremaine),
Wallace MacDonald
(Claude Van Zandt),
Josef Swickard
(Colonel Van Zandt)

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Clara Bow appears in Maytime and Black Oxen

Maytime is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier and starring Ethel Shannon, Harrison Ford and William Norris. The film also features one of Clara Bow's earliest cinema roles. The film is based on the play of the same name by Cyrus Wood and Rida Johnson Young, and was remade in 1937 with the same title.

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Plot

Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. Richard leaves, vowing to return a wealthy man and eligible suitor for her. He returns to find she has already married and, in turn, marries another girl on impulse. Two generations later, the grandchildren of Ottilie and Richard, who both have inherited their names as well, meet and develop a close friendship that culminates in the romance that their grandparents began but could not consummate years before.

Preservation status

Once considered to be a lost film, an incomplete print of the film was found in 2009 in the New Zealand Film Archive and underwent restoration. Four out the original seven reels had survived. A video of the preserved film is available for viewing at the website of the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Cast

  • Ethel Shannon as Ottilie Van Zandt
  • Harrison Ford as Richard Wayne
  • William Norris as Matthew
  • Clara Bow as Alice Tremaine
  • Wallace MacDonald as Claude Van Zandt
  • Josef Swickard as Colonel Van Zandt
  • Martha Mattox as Mathilda
  • Betty Francisco as Ermintrude
  • Robert McKim as Monte Mitchell
  • Julie Bishop as Little Girl (as Jacqueline Wells)
  • Pat Wing as Little Girl (as Madison Wing)
  • Louise Emmons as Gypsy Fortune Teller (uncredited)
  • Maxine Tabnac as Child (uncredited)
  • Edna Tichenor as Cleo (uncredited)
  • Bess True as Society Lady (uncredited)
  • Hortense O'Brien as Bit Role (uncredited)
  • References

    Maytime (1923 film) Wikipedia
    Maytime (1923 film) IMDb Maytime (1923 film) themoviedb.org