Wild and Woolly

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Wild and Woolly
Theatrical poster
Directed by	John Emerson
Written by	Anita Loos
Based on	Wild and Woolly by Horace B. Carpenter
Starring	Douglas Fairbanks Eileen Percy Walter Bytell Sam De Grasse
Cinematography	Victor Fleming
Release dates	June 24, 1917 (1917-06-24)
Country	United States
Language	Silent films English intertitles

Wild and Woolly is a 1917 silent film which tells the story of one man's personal odyssey from sophisticated Easterner to Western tough guy. It stars Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Walter Bytell and Sam De Grasse.

The film was adapted by Anita Loos from a story by Horace B. Carpenter and was directed by John Emerson. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based at the beginning of the 20th century.^[1]^[2]^[3] In 2002, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Cast

Douglas Fairbanks - Jeff Hillington
Eileen Percy - Nell Larabee
Walter Bytell - Collis J. Hillington
Joseph Singleton - Judson, the Butler
Calvert Carter - Tom Larabee, the Hotel Keeper
Forrest Seabury - Banker
J. W. Jones - Lawyer
Charles Stevens - Pedro
Sam De Grasse - Steve Shelby, the Indian Agent
Tom Wilson - Casey the Engineer
Ruth Allen
Edward Burns
Wharton James

References

↑ Koszarski, Richard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl, ISBN 0-86196-653-8
↑ "Studios and Films". Fort Lee Film Commission. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
↑ Fort Lee Film Commission (2006), Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-4501-5

External links

Wild and Woolly at the Internet Movie Database
Wild and Woolly at allmovie

Anita Loos

Novels

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of A Professional Lady. (1926)
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928)

Plays

Happy Birthday (1946)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949)
Gigi (1951)
Chéri (1959)

Film

Writer	My Baby (1912) The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) The New York Hat (1912) The Mistake (1913) The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913) Billy's Rival (1914) The Girl in the Shack (1914) The Hunchback (1914) Stranded (1916/I) His Picture in the Papers (1916) The Children Pay (1916) A Daughter of the Poor (1917) Reaching for the Moon (1917) Wild and Woolly (1917) Let's Get a Divorce (1918) The Isle of Conquest (1919) A Virtuous Vamp (1919) Mama's Affair (1921) The Struggle (1931) Red-Headed Woman (1932) The Barbarian (1933) San Francisco (1936) They Met in Bombay (1941) Producers' Showcase "Happy Birthday" (1956)

Screenplay	Red Hot Romance (1922) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Hold Your Man (1933) The Girl from Missouri (1934; original) Riffraff (1936) Saratoga (1937) The Women (1939) Susan and God (1940) Blossoms in the Dust (1941) When Ladies Meet (1941) I Married an Angel (1942)

Story	Nell's Eugenic Wedding (1914) American Aristocracy (1916) Woman's Place (1921) Midnight Mary (1933) Saratoga (1937)

Novel	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)

Titles	The Americano (1916) Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)

Scenario	The Sisters (1914/I) The Americano (1916) The Lost House (1915)

Other	Macbeth (1916; intertitles) The Branded Woman (1920; adaptation) Red Hot Romance (1922; executive producer) Blondie of the Follies (1932; dialogue) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953; play)

Uncredited	The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) The Cowboy and the Lady (1938) Another Thin Man (1939) Babes in Arms (1939) Strange Cargo (1940) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

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