''Lovers' Lane'' is a 1924 American
silent romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a sub-genre of comedy and Romance novel, romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles. Ro ...
film based upon the play by
Clyde Fitch
William Clyde Fitch (May 2, 1865 – September 4, 1909) was an American dramatist, the most popular writer for the Broadway stage of his time ().
Biography
Born in Elmira, New York and educated at Holderness School and Amherst College (clas ...
and directed by
Phil Rosen
Philip E. Rosen (May 8, 1888 – October 22, 1951) was an American film director and cinematographer. He directed more than 140 films between 1915 and 1949.
He was born in Malbork, Marienburg, German Empire (now, Malbork, Poland), grew up ...
. It stars
Robert Ellis and
Gertrude Olmstead
Gertrude Olmstead (November 13, 1897 – January 18, 1975) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 56 films between 1920 and 1929. Her last name was sometimes seen as Olmsted.
Career
Olmstead was born in Chicago, Illinois ...
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Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine, when Dr. Singleton (Ellis) tells his sweetheart, Mary Larkin (Olmstead), that even though he loves her he will not surrender his practice in their small New England town, she becomes peeved and encourages a stranger. Dr. Stone (Periolat), an old-timer and anti-modern method practitioner, has told a divorcee that her lame child is incurable. Singleton takes them both into his home and is successful in his operation upon the youngster. Mary decides to marry Woodbridge (Kent), the stranger, and calls upon Singleton’s father (MacGregor), a local minister, to perform the ceremony. Tom is a witness, and when the divorcee (Dale) is also called it develops that she divorced Woodbridge for non-support. Seeing his child Dick (Guerin) reunites Woodbridge and his former wife, and after that Dr. Singleton has everything his own way.
Cast
Box-office
According to Warner Bros records the film earned $182,000 domestically and $19,000 foreign.
Preservation status
Warner Bros. records of the film's negative have a notation, "Junked 12/27/48" (i.e. December 27, 1948). Warner Bros., destroyed many of its
nitrate
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negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to the decomposition of its pre-1933 films. No prints of ''Lover's Lane'' are known to exist
Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Lover's Lane''
/ref> and it is now considered to be a lost film
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References
External links
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Still
at silenthollywood.com
1924 films
1924 romantic comedy films
Lost American romantic comedy films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Phil Rosen
Films directed by William Beaudine
Warner Bros. films
1924 lost films
1920s American films
Silent American romantic comedy films
1920s English-language films
English-language romantic comedy films
Lost silent American films
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