Main Street (1923 film)

Main Street
Directed by	Harry Beaumont
Written by	Julien Josephson
Based on	Main Street (1920 novel) by (Sinclair Lewis
Starring	Florence Vidor Monte Blue Alan Hale, Sr. Louise Fazenda
Cinematography	Edwin B. Du Par Homer Scott
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	April 25, 1923
Running time	90 minutes (9 reels)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Main Street is a 1923 silent film drama based on the 1920 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Harry Beaumont. A Broadway play version of the novel was produced in 1921.^[1]

Cast

Florence Vidor as Carol Milford Monte Blue as Dr. Will Kennicott Harry Myers as Dave Dyer Robert Gordon as Erik Valborg Noah Beery as Adolph Valborg Alan Hale as Miles Bjornstam Louise Fazenda as Bea Sorenson Anne Schaefer as Mrs. Valborg Josephine Crowell as Widow Bogart Otis Harlan as Ezra Stowbody Gordon Griffith as Cy Bogart Lon Poff as Chet Dashaway J. P. Lockney as Luke Dawson

Gilbert Clayton as Sam Clark Jack McDonald as Nat Hicks Michael Dark as Guy Pollock Estelle Short as Mrs. Dashaway Glen Cavender as Harry Haydock Katherine Perry as Mrs. Dave Dyer Aileen Manning as Mrs. Stowbody Mrs. Hayward Mack as Mrs. Haydock Louis King as Mr. Volstead Josephine Kirkwood as Mrs. Sam Clark Louise Carver as Mrs. Donovan Hal Wilson as Del Snaflin

Preservation status

This film is lost.^[2][3][4] Warner Bros. records of the film's negative have a notation, "Junked 12/27/48" (i.e., December 27, 1948). Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to nitrate film pre-1933 decomposition.

References

1. Main Street as produced on Broadway at the National Theatre October 5, 1921 to December 1921; IBDb.com
2. Main Street at silentera.com database
3. Main Street at American Silent Feature Film Survival Database
4. 1957 MOVIES FROM AAP Warner Bros Features & Cartoons SALES BOOK DIRECTED AT TV

External links

• Main Street at the Internet Movie Database
• Main Street at the TCM Movie Database
• Main Street at AllMovie
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