The Great White Way (1924 film)
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The Great White Way is a 1924
silent
film comedy centered around the sport of boxing
and directed by E. Mason Hopper
. It was produced by Cosmopolitan Productions
and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures
, just prior to the purchase of Goldwyn by Marcus Loew
to become MGM. It was made with the cooperation of the New York City Fire Department. The film stars Oscar Shaw
and Anita Stewart
and is a lost
film. It was remade twelve years later as Cain and Mabel
with Marion Davies
and Clark Gable
.
unbilled
1924 in film
-Events:* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
silent
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
film comedy centered around the sport of boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
and directed by E. Mason Hopper
E. Mason Hopper
E. Mason Hopper was an American film director of the silent era. He directed 76 films between 1911 and 1935.-Selected filmography:* Wife or Country * Brothers Under the Skin...
. It was produced by Cosmopolitan Productions
Cosmopolitan Productions
Cosmopolitan Productions, also often referred to as Cosmopolitan Pictures, was an American film company based in New York City from 1918 to 1923 and Hollywood until 1938.- History :...
and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures
Goldwyn Pictures
Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company founded in 1916 by Samuel Goldfish in partnership with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn using an amalgamation of both last names to create the name...
, just prior to the purchase of Goldwyn by Marcus Loew
Marcus Loew
Marcus Loew was an American business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loews Theatres and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .-Biography:...
to become MGM. It was made with the cooperation of the New York City Fire Department. The film stars Oscar Shaw
Oscar Shaw
Oscar Shaw , was a stage and screen actor and singer...
and Anita Stewart
Anita Stewart
Anita Stewart was an American actress and film producer of the early silent film era.-Early life and career:...
and is a lost
Lost film
A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...
film. It was remade twelve years later as Cain and Mabel
Cain and Mabel
Cain and Mabel is a 1936 romantic comedy film designed as a vehicle for Marion Davies in which she co-stars with Clark Gable and Robert Paige ....
with Marion Davies
Marion Davies
Marion Davies was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, as her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career....
and Clark Gable
Clark Gable
William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...
.
Cast
- Anita StewartAnita StewartAnita Stewart was an American actress and film producer of the early silent film era.-Early life and career:...
- Mabel Vandegrift - Tom Lewis - Duke Sullivan
- T. Roy Barnes - Jack Murray
- Oscar ShawOscar ShawOscar Shaw , was a stage and screen actor and singer...
- Joe Cain - Dore Davidson - Adolph Blum
- Harry Watson - City Editor
- Hal Forde - Brock Morton
- Olin HowlandOlin HowlandOlin Howland was an American film actor. From 1909 to 1927 he appeared on the Broadway stage while balancing a career in silent movies. In 1921, he appeared in the play Two Little Girls in Blue with Oscar Shaw and the Fairbanks Twins. He was in Janice Meredith with Marion Davies...
- Stubbs - Pete Hartley - English Boxing champion
- Stanley Forde - Joe's father
- Jimmy Stone - Pete Hartley
- Johnny Gallagher - Referee
- Johnny Hennessey - Cain's Second
- Frank Wunderlee - McIntyre
- Joe HumphriesJoseph HumphreysJoseph "Joe" Edward Humphreys was an American boxing official and announcer. He was one of the most popular fight announcers from the turn of the century up until the 1930s...
- Announcer - Jerry Peterson - Smoke
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- Arthur "Bugs" Baer - himself
- Nell BrinkleyNell BrinkleyNell Brinkley was an American illustrator and comic artist who was sometimes referred to as the "Queen of Comics" during her nearly four-decade career working with New York newspapers and magazines...
- herself - Arthur BrisbaneArthur BrisbaneArthur Brisbane was one of the best known American newspaper editors of the 20th century.-Biography:...
- himself - Kid Broad - himself
- Irvin S. CobbIrvin S. CobbIrvin Shrewsbury Cobb was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories.-Biography:...
- himself - Hal Coffman - himself
- Billy De BeckBilly De BeckWilliam Morgan DeBeck was a popular cartoonist who was widely known as Billy DeBeck. He created some of the memorable comic strip characters of the 1920s and 1930s, including Barney Google, Bunky, Snuffy Smith and the racehorse Spark Plug...
- himself - Frank DeVernon - ?
- Harry Hershfield - himself
- Fay King - herself
- Winsor McCayWinsor McCayWinsor McCay was an American cartoonist and animator.A prolific artist, McCay's pioneering early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set a standard followed by Walt Disney and others in later decades...
- himself - J. W. McGurk - himself
- George McManusGeorge McManusGeorge McManus was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of Irish immigrant Jiggs and his wife Maggie, the central characters in his syndicated comic strip, Bringing Up Father....
- himself - Tex Rickard - himself
- Damon RunyonDamon RunyonAlfred Damon Runyon was an American newspaperman and writer.He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from the...
- himself - Earl SandeEarl SandeEarl H. Sande was an American Hall of Fame jockey and thoroughbred horse trainer.Born in Groton, South Dakota, Earl Sande started out as a bronco buster in the early 1900s but then became a successful American quarter horse rider before switching to thoroughbred horse racing in 1918...
- himself - Ned WayburnNed WayburnNed Wayburn, born Edward Claudius Weyburn, was a choreographer. He was born in Pennsylvania but spent much of his childhood in Chicago where he was introduced to theater and studied classical piano. At the age of 21, he abandoned his family’s tradition of manufacturing and began teaching at the...
- himself - H. C. WitwerH. C. WitwerHarry Charles Witwer , more commonly known as H. C. Witwer, was an American short story author. Some 60 comedy film shorts were based on his works, most from the mid 1920s to 1930, the year after Witwer's death....
- himself
