Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918 film)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Directed by J. Searle Dawley
Produced by Adolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
Written by J. Searle Dawley
Based on Uncle Tom's Cabin 
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin 
by George Aiken
Starring Marguerite Clark
Frank Losee
Cinematography H. Lyman Broening
Production
company
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
  • July 15, 1918
Running time
 5 reels
Country United States
Language Silent
English intertitles

Uncle Tom's Cabin was a 1918 American silent drama film directed by J. Searle Dawley, produced by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and distributed by Paramount Pictures under the Famous Players-Lasky name. The film is based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and George Aiken's eponymous play.[1]

Uncle Tom's Cabin starred Marguerite Clark who portrayed both Topsy and Little Eva.[2] The film is now considered to be a lost film.[3]

Cast

Production notes

Part of the film were shot on location in Louisiana, New York City and Maine.[1] The film's star, Marguerite Clark, portrayed both Little Eva and Topsy in the film. In order to present both characters on the screen on the same time, the filmmakers used the process of double exposure.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gevinson, Alan (1997). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. University of California Press. p. 1079. ISBN 0-520-20964-8.
  2. ↑ Uncle Tom's Cabin at silentera.com
  3. ↑ Nunn, Curtis (1981). Marguerite Clark, America's Darling of Broadway and the Silent Screen. TCU Press. p. VII.
  4. ↑ Tepa Lupack, Barbara, ed. (1999). Nineteenth-century Women at the Movies: Adapting Classic Women's Fiction to Film. Popular Press. p. 229. ISBN 0-879-72805-1.

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