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The Dancin’ Fool
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4124 feet
Directed by Sam Wood

Cast: Wallace Reid [Sylvester ‘Ves’ Tibble], Bebe Daniels Lyon (Bebe Daniels) [Junie Budd], Raymond Hatton [Enoch Jones], Willis Marks [Tim Meeks], George B. Williams [McGammon], Lillian Leighton [Ma Budd], Carlos San Martin [Elkus], William H. Brown [Gabby Gaines], Tully Marshall [Charles Harkins], Ruth Ashby [Dorothy Harkins], Ernest Joy [Tom Reed]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [A Paramount Artcraft Picture]. / Scenario by Clara Genevieve Kennedy, from the short story “The Dancin’ Fool” by Henry Payson Dowst. Art direction by Wilfred Buckland. Assistant director, Robert Lee. Cinematography by Alfred Gilks. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 6 April 1920 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP15009]. Released 23 May 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy: Romance.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0894.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 26 February 2023.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0894; Limbacher-Feature p. 55 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.