A City Sparrow

A City Sparrow

Still with Clyde Fillmore and Ethel Clayton
Directed by Sam Wood
Produced by Jesse L. Lasky
Screenplay by Kate Jordan
Clara Genevieve Kennedy
Starring Ethel Clayton
Walter Hiers
Clyde Fillmore
Lillian Leighton
William Boyd
Rose Cade
Cinematography Alfred Gilks
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
  • October 17, 1920 (1920-10-17)
Running time
50 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

A City Sparrow is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Sam Wood and written by Kate Jordan and Clara Genevieve Kennedy. The film stars Ethel Clayton, Walter Hiers, Clyde Fillmore, Lillian Leighton, William Boyd, and Rose Cade. The film was released on October 17, 1920, by Paramount Pictures.[1][2]

Plot

As summarized in a film magazine,[3] Milly West (Ethel Clayton), a cabaret dancer becomes injured, and after a surgeon says she cannot become a mother, she gives up on love. Tim (Walter Hiers) loves her and after she rejects him, writes his mother in the country that he has killed himself. David (Clyde Fillmore), a man from the country, takes her there to recover and later wins her over.

The magazine also used stills to illustrate the plot:

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