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Chimmie Fadden
(1915) United States of America
B&W : [?] Four or Five? reels
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Cast: Victor Moore [Chimmie Fadden], Camille Astor [Hortense, ‘The Duchess’], Raymond Hatton [Larry Fadden], Mrs. Lewis McCord [Mrs. Fadden], Ernest Joy [Mr. Van Cortlandt], Anita King [Fanny Van Courtlandt], Tom Forman [Antoine], Harry De Roy [Perkins]

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Cecil B. DeMille, from the play adaptation Chimmie Fadden by Edward Waterman Townsend of the short story “Chimmie Fadden” by Edward Waterman Townsend. Technical director, Wilfred Buckland. Cinematography by Alvin Wyckoff. Film editor, Cecil B. DeMille. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 9 June 1915 by Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated [LU5501]. Released 28 June 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0678.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 1 April 2009.

References: AFI-F1 nn. F1.0678, F1.0679; Bohn-Light p. 90.