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Alla Nazimova (right).
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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War Brides
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels
Directed by Herbert Brenon
Cast: Nazimova (Alla Nazimova) [Joan], Charles Hutchinson [George], Charles Bryant [Franz], William Bailey [Eric], Richard S. Barthelmess (Richard Barthelmess [Arno], Nila Mac [Amelia], Gertrude Berkeley [the mother], Alex K. Shannon [the king], Robert Whitworth [Lieutenant Hoffman], Ned Burton [Captain Bragg], Theodora Warfield [Mina], Charles Chailles [a financier]
Herbert Brenon Film Corporation production; distributed by Lewis J. Selznick Enterprises, Incorporated [?] through Selznick Pictures Corporation? / Produced by Herbert Brenon. Scenario by Herbert Brenon and Marion Craig Wentworth, from the play War Brides by Marion Craig Wentworth. Technical direction by George Fitch. Cinematography by J. Roy Hunt. Film editor, James McKay. Musical accompaniment selected by Robert Hood Bowers. Presented by Lewis J. Selznick. / © 22 November 1916 by Herbert Brenon Film Corporation [LP9585]. Released 12 November 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Nazimova’s film debut. Some location cinematography was taken as Lake Waramand, Connecticut. The film was reedited and rereleased in the USA in 1917.
Drama: War.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 30 November 2023.
References: Brownlow-Parade p. 431; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 11; Katchmer-Eighty pp. 16, 18; Kobal-Fifty p. 18; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 24; Lahue-World p. 18; Parish-Combat p. 206; Sinyard-Silent p. 60; Slide-Early p. 18 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.
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