Forget Me Not (1922 film)

Forget Me Not

Film still with Love and Otto Lederer
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
Produced by Louis Burston
Written by Henry Roberts Symonds (story)
John B. Clymer (adaptation)
Starring Bessie Love
Gareth Hughes
Cinematography Arthur L. Todd
Distributed by Metro Pictures
Release dates
  • July 23, 1922
Running time
 7 reels
Country Metro Pictures
Language Silent film
(English intertitles)

Forget Me Not is a 1922 silent film melodrama directed by W. S. Van Dyke and distributed by Metro Pictures. The film starred Bessie Love and Gareth Hughes. It is considered a lost film.[1][2][3]

Plot

Ann (Love) and Jimmy (Hughes) are orphans.[4]

Production

In preparation for her role, Love lived at an orphanage for two weeks.[5]

Cast

Reception

The film received positive reviews. According to The Evening Mail, the film "is a fine, clean, beautiful picture… told with such depth of understanding and with entire lack of artificiality that it strikes its note of appeal as few films that have… It is blessed with a cast that could not be improved upon." The Daily News said, "Few who see this little screen drama will not soon forget its sweetness and charm."[4]

References

  1. ↑ Forget Me Not at silentera.com
  2. ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921–30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
  3. ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Forget Me Not
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Evening News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania). June 9, 1923. p. 19. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ "At the Theatres". Ellensburg Daily Record. February 17, 1923. p. 5.

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