''A Jewel in Pawn'' is a 1917 American silent

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directed by Jack Conway and starring

Ella Hall Ella Augusta Hall (March 17, 1896 – September 3, 1981) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 90 films between 1912 and 1933. Early years Ella Augusta Hall was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on March 17, 1896. Her family moved t ...

, Maie Hall and

Antrim Short Antrim Short (July 11, 1900 – November 24, 1972) was an American stage and film actor, casting director and talent agent. As a juvenile he enjoyed some success on the Broadway stage notably appearing as a boy with Mrs. Fiske and Holbrook Blinn i ...

.Parish & Pitts p.75

Cast

as Nora Martin * Maie Hall as Mrs. Martin *

as Jimmy * Walter Belasco as Aaron Levovitch * Jack Connolly as Bob Hendricks *

George C. Pearce George C. Pearce (June 26, 1865 – August 13, 1940) was an American stage and film actor, primarily of the silent film, silent era. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1914 and 1939. He was born in New York, New York, and died in Los ...

as John Dane * Marshall Mackaye as The Bully * Jack Nelson as Percival Van Dyke

References

Bibliography

* James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts. ''Film directors: a guide to their American films''. Scarecrow Press, 1974.

External links

* 1917 films 1917 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films Films directed by Jack Conway American black-and-white films Universal Pictures films 1910s American films {{1910s-drama-film-stub