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  John Gilbert and Lillian Gish.
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La Bohème
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Nine reels / 8781 feet
Directed by King Vidor

Cast: Lillian Gish [Mimi], John Gilbert [Rodolphe], Renée Adorée [Musette], George Hassell [Schaunard], Roy D’Arcy [Vicomte Paul], Edward Everett Horton [Colline], Karl Dane [Benoit, the janitor], Mathilde Comont [Madame Benoit], Gino Corrado [Marcel], Gene Pouyet (Eugene Pouyet) [Bernard], Frank Currier [the theater manager], David Mir [Alexis], Catherine Vidor [Louise], Valentina Zimina [Phémie]; Blanche Payson [the factory supervisor], Harry Crocker

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture]. / Screen play (scenario) by Fred De Gresac, from a continuity (adaptation) by Ray Doyle and Harry Behn suggested by the novel Scènes de la vie de Bohème [Life in the Latin Quarter] by Henri Murger and the opera La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini. Settings (production design) by Cedric Gibbons and Arnold Gillespie (A. Arnold Gillespie). Technical assistant, Robert Florey. Lillian Gish’s gowns designed by Lillian Gish. Renée Adorée’s gowns by Erté of Paris. Photography (cinematography) by Hendrik Sartov. Film editor, Hugh Wynn. Titles (intertitles written) by William M. Conselman and Ruth Cummings. Music score by William Axt + [David Mendoza]. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / © 30 August 1926 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP23076]. Premiered 24 February 1926 in New York, New York. Released [?] 13 March or 17 October? 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Gish’s first MGM film.

Drama: Romance.

Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Actors: Theater - Death - Fops - Illness: Tuberculosis - Manuscripts - Plays - Playwrights - Self-sacrifice - Theaters

Listing updated: 1 July 2012.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Bohn-Light p. 190; Brownlow-Parade p. 423; Davies-Times p. 53; Dowd-Vidor pp. 65, 69, 70, 74, 75-78, 218; Drew-Speaking p. 48; Eames-MGM p. 24; Everson-American p. 208; Fell-History p. 74; Higashi-Virgins pp. 20, 24-25; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 100; Limbacher-Feature p. 28; McCaffrey-Guide p. 19; MoPicAlmanac-1929 p. 11; Shipman-Cinema p. 92; Vermilye-Twenties p. 215; Weaver-Twenty pp. 28, 143, 146 : Website-AFI.

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