Here Comes the Bride (1919 film)

Here Comes the Bride
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Directed by	John S. Robertson
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky
Written by	Charles Whittaker (scenario
Based on	Here Comes the Bride  by Max Marcin and Roy Atwell
Starring	John Barrymore
Cinematography	Hal Young
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	January 19, 1919
Running time	5 reels; (4,436 feet)
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles

Here Comes the Bride is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. This film is based on the 1917 Broadway play Here Comes the Bride by Max Marcin and Roy Atwell. The film was directed by John S. Robertson and stars John Barrymore.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Plot

a scene from the film. L to R: Faire Binney, Frank Losee, Jack Barrymore

As described in a film magazine,^[6] Poor young man Frederick Tile (Barrymore) is in love with the daughter of a rich man, in order to obtain money agrees to marry a veiled woman from whom he will be divorced in one year and allow some schemers to use his name to obtain a vast property.

After the ceremony, the just married groom by a set of logical circumstances comes to spend the night in the mansion of some friends who have just left town. The young woman he loves, Ethel Sinclair (Binney) that same night has left home, leaving a note that says she plans to elope with the man she loves, and by another set of logical circumstances sleeps in an adjacent room at the mansion. The next morning they meet at breakfast while still in their bedclothes, resulting in a comical situation.

Cast

• John Barrymore - Frederick Tile
• Frank Losee - Robert Sinclair
• Faire Binney - Ethel Sinclair
• Frances Kay - Nora Sinclair
• Alfred Hickman - James Carleton
• William David - Thurlow Benson
• Leslie King - Ashley
• Harry Semels - Sevier

References

1. Progressive Silent Film List: Here Comes the Bride at silentera.com
2. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988
3. John Barrymore: A Bio-Bibliography by Martin Norden, c.1995
4. John Barrymore Shakespearean Actor by Michael A. Morrison, p. 73, c. 1997
5. Here Comes the Bride as produced on Broadway at the George M. Cohan Theatre, September 25, 1917 to November 1917; IBDb.com
6. Harrison, Louis Reeves (Feb 1, 1919). "Critical Reviews and Comments: Here Comes the Bride". Moving Picture World (New York City: Chalmers Publishing Company) 39 (5): 674. Retrieved 2014-07-18.

External links

• Here Comes the Bride at the Internet Movie Database
• Here Comes the Bride at AllMovie
• John Barrymore and cast in still from Here Comes the Bride 1919
• Two scenes from lost film Here Comes the Bride: #1 John Barrymore ....#2 John Barrymore and Faire Binney
• Barrymore in comic setting from the film