''Mumsie'' is a 1927 British
silent drama film
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directed by
Herbert Wilcox
Herbert Sydney Wilcox Order of the British Empire, CBE (19 April 1890 – 15 May 1977) was a British film producer and film director, director.
He was one of the most successful British filmmakers from the 1920s to the 1950s. He is best know ...
and starring
Pauline Frederick
Pauline Frederick (born Pauline Beatrice Libbey, August 12, 1883 – September 19, 1938) was an American stage and film actress.
Early life
Frederick was born Pauline Beatrice Libbey (later changed to Libby) in Boston in 1883 (some sources stat ...
,
Nelson Keys
Nelson Keys (7 April 1886 in London, England – 26 April 1939 in London) was a British stage and film actor, a star in musical comedy and stage revue, including the 1924 ''Ziegfeld Follies''.
He was the father of film producer Anthony Nelson Ke ...
and
Herbert Marshall
Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall (23 May 1890 – 22 January 1966) was an English stage, screen and radio actor who starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. After a successful theatrical career in the Uni ...
. It was adapted from the 1920
play of the same title by
Edward Knoblock
Edward Knoblock (born Edward Gustavus Knoblauch; 7 April 1874 – 19 July 1945) was a playwright and novelist, originally American and later a naturalised British citizen. He wrote numerous plays, often at the rate of two or three a year, of whic ...
about a favourite son of a family who proves to be a coward when war breaks out. Pauline Frederick's last silent film. ''Mumsie'' is a
lost
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film. It was made at
Twickenham Studios
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.
The film was a major success and helped Herbert Marshall establish himself in
Hollywood
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soon afterwards.
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Cast
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Pauline Frederick
Pauline Frederick (born Pauline Beatrice Libbey, August 12, 1883 – September 19, 1938) was an American stage and film actress.
Early life
Frederick was born Pauline Beatrice Libbey (later changed to Libby) in Boston in 1883 (some sources stat ...
as Mumsie
*
Nelson Keys
Nelson Keys (7 April 1886 in London, England – 26 April 1939 in London) was a British stage and film actor, a star in musical comedy and stage revue, including the 1924 ''Ziegfeld Follies''.
He was the father of film producer Anthony Nelson Ke ...
as Spud Murphy
*
Herbert Marshall
Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall (23 May 1890 – 22 January 1966) was an English stage, screen and radio actor who starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. After a successful theatrical career in the Uni ...
as Col. Armytage (film debut)
*
Frank Stanmore as Nobby Clarke
*
Donald Macardle as Noel Symonds
* Irene Russell as Louise Symonds
*
Rolf Leslie
Rolf Leslie was a British actor born in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, UK.
Selected filmography
* ''Sixty Years a Queen'' (1913)
* '' East Lynne'' (1913)
* '' Lights of London'' (1914)
* ''Jane Shore'' (1915)
* '' The Faith of a Child'' (191 ...
as Edgar Symonds
References
Bibliography
* Low, Rachel. ''The History of British Film: Volume IV, 1918–1929''. Routledge, 1997.
External links
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theatre advert for showing on The Isle of Manarchived)
1927 films
1927 drama films
1920s English-language films
Films directed by Herbert Wilcox
Films shot at Twickenham Film Studios
Lost British films
British drama films
British silent feature films
British black-and-white films
1920s British films
Silent drama films
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