The Way of All Flesh (film)
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- For the 1903 novel, see The Way of All Flesh.
The Way of All Flesh is a 1927 film that was written by Lajos BirĂ³, Jules Furthman, Julian Johnson and Ernest Maas from a story by Perley Poore Sheehan. The film was directed by Victor Fleming and is unrelated to Butler's novel The Way of All Flesh.
The film is a melodrama starring Emil Jannings, Belle Bennett and Phyllis Haver. Jannings won the first Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in this film and another.
No known copies of this film survive.
The movie was remade in 1940, starring Akim Tamiroff, Gladys George and William Henry.
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1910s | When the Clouds Roll by (with Theodore Reed) |
1920s | The Mollycoddle | Mama's Affair | Woman's Place | The Lane That Had No Turning | Red Hot Romance | Anna Ascends | Dark Secrets | Law of the Lawless | To the Last Man | The Call of the Canyon | Code of the Sea | Empty Hands | The Devil's Cargo | Adventure | A Son of His Father | Lord Jim | The Blind Goddess | Mantrap | The Way of All Flesh | Hula | The Rough Riders | Abie's Irish Rose | The Awakening | The Wolf Song | The Virginian |
1930s | Common Clay | Renegades | The Wet Parade | Treasure Island | Reckless | The Farmer Takes a Wife | Captains Courageous | Test Pilot | The Wizard of Oz | Gone with the Wind |
1940s | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Tortilla Flat | A Guy Named Joe | Adventure | Joan of Arc |
Productions | The White Sister (1933) |