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Mary Ellen Comes to Town
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4704 feet
Directed by Elmer Clifton

Cast: Dorothy Gish [Mary Ellen], Kate Bruce [her mother], Ralph Graves [Bob Fairacres], Adolph Lestina (Adolphe Lestina) [Colonel Fairacres], Charles Gerrard [William ‘Will the Weasel’ Gurson], Raymond Cannon [‘Beauty’ Bender], Bert Apling [‘Hard’ Harris], Rhea Haines [Flossie Fleurette]

The New Art Film Company production; distributed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation through Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Paramount-Artcraft Picture]. / Scenario by Wells Hastings, from a screen story by Helen G. Smith. Cinematography by George W. Hill. Presented by The New Art Film Company. / © 17 January 1920 by The New Art Film Company [LP14680]. Released [?] 14 or 21? March 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2856.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 10 December 2024.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2856; Barry-Griffith p. 54; Weaver-Twenty p. 145 : Website-IMDb.