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Director
  
Harry F. Millarde

Genre
  
Silent film

Distributor
  
20th Century Fox

Country
  
United States

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Over the Hill to the Poorhouse movie poster
Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Release date
  
September 17, 1920

Based on
  
poems "Over the Hill to the Poorhouse" and "Over the Hill from the Poorhouse" by Will Carleton

Writer
  
Will Carleton (poems), Paul Sloane (scenario)

Similar movies
  
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), Happy Days (1930), She (1917)

Over the Hill to the Poorhouse, also known as Over the Hill, is a 1920 American silent drama film about a woman who has a lot of children, and who never gets the chance to enjoy life. The film starred actress Mary Carr and almost all of her real-life children.

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The film was directed by Harry Millarde, released by Fox Film Corporation, and was a box office success in 1920.

The story was previously filmed as Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1908), starring Florence Auer. It was remade as Over the Hill (1931), starring Mae Marsh, and as Tears of a Mother (1937). The 1920 silent film is preserved at Bois d'Arcy in France.

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Cast

  • Mary Carr as Ma Benton
  • James Sheridan as Child Isaac (billed as Sheridan Tansey)
  • Noel Tearle as Adult Isaac
  • Stephen Carr as Child Thomas
  • William Welsh as Pa Benton
  • Jerry Devine as Child John
  • Johnnie Walker as Adult John (billed as John Walker)
  • James Sheldon as Child Charles
  • Wallace Ray as Adult Charles
  • Rosemary Carr as Child Rebecca
  • Phyllis Diller as Adult Rebecca (this Phyllis Diller is not the TV comedian)
  • Maybeth Carr as Child Susan
  • Louella Carr as Adult Susan
  • Vivienne Osborne as Isabella Strong
  • Dorothy Allen as Agulitia
  • Edna Murphy as Lucy
  • Joseph Donohoe as Undetermined role
  • John T. Dwyer as Adult Thomas
  • References

    Over the Hill to the Poorhouse Wikipedia
    Over the Hill to the Poorhouse IMDb


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