''Mumsie'' is a 1927 British silent

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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,

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

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film. It was made at Twickenham Studios. The film was a major success and helped Herbert Marshall establish himself in

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soon afterwards.Low p.278

Cast

* Pauline Frederick as Mumsie *

as Spud Murphy *

as Col. Armytage (film debut) * Frank Stanmore as Nobby Clarke *

Donald Macardle Donald Macardle was an Irish film and stage actor and writer. He also directed the 1933 film ''The King's Cup''. Filmography Actor * ''Wee MacGregor's Sweetheart'' (1922) * ''The Fair Maid of Perth'' (1923) * ''The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots'' ...

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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