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Little Old New York
(1923) United States of America
B&W : 11 reels / 10,366 feet
Directed by Sidney Olcott

Cast: Marion Davies [Patricia O’Day], Harrison Ford [Larry Delavan], Courtenay Foote [Robert Fulton], Mahlon Hamilton [Washington Irving], Sam Hardy [Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.], Andrew Dillon [John Jacob Astor], George Barraud [Henry Brevoort], Norval Keedwell [Fitz Greene Halleck], Riley Hatch [Philip Schuyler], Charles Kennedy [Reilly], Thomas Findlay [Chancellor Robert Livingston], Charles Judels [Lorenzo Delmonico], Harry Watson [‘Bully Boy’ Brewster], Spencer Charters [Bunny], Louis Wolheim [the Hoboken Terror], J.M. Kerrigan [John O’Day], Stephen Carr [Patrick O’Day], Marie R. Burke [Mrs. Schuyler], Mary Kennedy [Betty Schuyler], Elizabeth Murray [Rachel Brewster], Gypsy O’Brien [Ariana du Puyster]; Montague Love

Cosmopolitan Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Goldwyn-Cosmopolitan Distributing Corporation. / Produced by William Randolph Hearst. Scenario by Luther Reed, from the play Little Old New York by Rida Johnson Young. Set design by Joseph Urban. Costume design by Gretl Urban. Cinematography by Ira H. Morgan and Gilbert Warrenton. / © 21 March 1923 by William Randolph Hearst [LP19451]. Released 4 November 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as Little Old New York (1940).

Comedy-Drama: Historical.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Immigrants - Impostors - Inheritances - Irish-Americans - Rich people - USA: New York: New York

Listing updated: 23 November 2019.

References: Davies-Times pp. 34, 37, 39, 40, 348; Everson-American p. 163; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 14; Kerr-Silent p. 31; Pitts-Hollywood p. 199; Sherwood-Best p. xix; Sweeney-Coming p. 55 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.