A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Talk of the Town
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Allen Holubar

Cast: Dorothy Phillips [Genevra French], George Fawcett [Major French], Clarissa Selwyn [Aunt Harriet], William Stowell [Lawrence Tabor], Lon Chaney [Jack Langhorne], Gloria Joy [Genevra, at age 5], Una Fleming [dancer], Charles Hill Mailes, ZaSu Pitts, Mrs. Griffith, William Burgess, Mr. Bainbridge, George Lewis

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [A Universal Special Attraction]. / Scenario by Allen Holubar, from the novelette Discipline and Genevra by Harold Vickers. Cinematography by Fred Granville. / © 28 August 1918 by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [LP12807]. Released 28 September 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Some contemporary sources spell the character name Langhome and Lanchome.

Drama: Romance.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 2 December 2023.

References: Edmonds-BigU p. 96; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 30; Spehr-American p. 100 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.