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Father and the Boys
Also known as {Father and Boys}
(1915) United States of America
B&W : [?] Five or Six? reels
Directed by Joseph de Grasse

Cast: Digby Bell [Lemuel Morewood], [?] Louise Carbasse or Louise Welch (Louise Lovely)? [Bessie Brayton], Harry Ham [William Rufus Morewood], Colin Chase [Thomas Jefferson Morewood], Yona Landowska [Emily Donelson], Mae Gaston [Frances Berkeley], Lon Chaney [Tuck Bartholomew], Haywood Mack [Major Bellamy Didsworth], H. Davenport [Tobias Ford], Doc Crane, Thomas Chatterton, Jean Hathaway, [?] Bud Chase?

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [A Broadway Universal Feature]. / Scenario by Ida May Park, from the play Father and the Boys by George Ade. Cinematography by Edward Ullman. / © 2 December 1915 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP7103]. Released 20 December 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Bell’s film debut; Bell starred in the Broadway production of the Ade play. Louise Lovely’s American film debut.

Comedy.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Mines - Orphans

Listing updated: 2 April 2009.

References: Edmonds-BigU pp. 74, 77; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 19; Spehr-American p. 100; Tarbox-Lost p. 254; Weaver-Twenty p. 76 : Website-AFI.

 
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