Main Street (1923 film)

Main Street
Directed by	Harry Beaumont
Written by	Julien Josephson
Based on	Main Street (1920 novel) by (Sinclair Lewis
Starring	Florence Vidor Monte Blue Alan Hale, Sr. Louise Fazenda
Cinematography	Edwin B. Du Par Homer Scott
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	April 25, 1923
Running time	90 minutes (9 reels)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Main Street is a 1923 silent film drama based on the 1920 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Harry Beaumont. A Broadway play version of the novel was produced in 1921.^[1]

Cast

Florence Vidor as Carol Milford
Monte Blue as Dr. Will Kennicott
Harry Myers as Dave Dyer
Robert Gordon as Erik Valborg
Noah Beery as Adolph Valborg
Alan Hale as Miles Bjornstam
Louise Fazenda as Bea Sorenson
Anne Schaefer as Mrs. Valborg
Josephine Crowell as Widow Bogart
Otis Harlan as Ezra Stowbody
Gordon Griffith as Cy Bogart
Lon Poff as Chet Dashaway
J. P. Lockney as Luke Dawson

Gilbert Clayton as Sam Clark
Jack McDonald as Nat Hicks
Michael Dark as Guy Pollock
Estelle Short as Mrs. Dashaway
Glen Cavender as Harry Haydock
Katherine Perry as Mrs. Dave Dyer
Aileen Manning as Mrs. Stowbody
Mrs. Hayward Mack as Mrs. Haydock
Louis King as Mr. Volstead
Josephine Kirkwood as Mrs. Sam Clark
Louise Carver as Mrs. Donovan
Hal Wilson as Del Snaflin

Preservation status

This film is lost.^[2]^[3]^[4] Warner Bros. records of the film's negative have a notation, "Junked 12/27/48" (i.e., December 27, 1948). Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to nitrate film pre-1933 decomposition.

References

External links

Main Street at the Internet Movie Database
Main Street at the TCM Movie Database
Main Street at AllMovie
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Films directed by Harry Beaumont

Brown of Harvard (1918)
The Gold Diggers (1923)
Main Street (1923)
Beau Brummel (1924)
The Lover of Camille (1924)
Forbidden Hours (1928)
Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
A Single Man (1929)
The Broadway Melody (1929)
Speedway (1929)
Great Day (1930)
Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)
Children of Pleasure (1930)
The Florodora Girl (1930)
Those Three French Girls (1930)
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
Laughing Sinners (1931)
West of Broadway (1931)
Are You Listening (1932)
Unashamed (1932)
Faithless (1932)
Made on Broadway (1933)
When Ladies Meet (1933)
Should Ladies Behave (1933)
Murder in the Private Car (1934)
Enchanted April (1935)
When's Your Birthday? (1937)
Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)
Up Goes Maisie (1946)
The Show-Off (1946)
Undercover Maisie (1947)
Alias a Gentleman (1948)

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