The Spreading Dawn
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| Directed by | Laurence Trimble |
| Produced by | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Written by | Basil King (short story: The Spreading Dawn) |
| Starring | Jane Cowl |
| Cinematography | Phil Rosen |
| Distributed by | Goldwyn Pictures |
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Running time | 5 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Spreading Dawn is a 1917 American silent drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn in his first year of producing independently in his own studio and starring Broadway stage star Jane Cowl in her second and final silent. It was directed by Laurence Trimble, the then husband of Cowl's stage writing partner Jane Murfin. The film is lost with a fragment, apparently only part of reel 3, surviving at the Library of Congress.[1][2]
This film was based on a short fiction The Spreading Dawn by Basil King that first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. It was later expanded and printed as a novel in 1927.
Cast
- Jane Cowl - Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl
- Orme Caldara - Anthony Vanderpyl
- Harry Spingler - Bentley Vanderpyl (*billed Harry Springer)
- Florence Billings - Mrs. Cornelia Le Roy
- Henry Stephenson - Mr. LeRoy(*billed Harry Stephenson)
- Alice Chapin - Mrs. Mercer
- Helen Blair - Young Lizzie
- Cecil Owen - Colonel Lee
- Mabel Ballin - Georgina Vanderpyl
- Edmund Lowe - Captain Lewis Nugent
- Edith McAlpin - Old Lizzie
uncredited
- Antoinette Erwin
- Lettie Ford
- Charles Hammond
- Marion Knapp
References
- ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988
- ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog : The Spreading Dawn
External links
- The Spreading Dawn at the Internet Movie Database
- The Spreading Dawn ; allmovie / synopsis
- lantern slide feature Jane Cowl and Orme Caldara likenesses