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The Kentucky Derby (1922 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Kentucky Derby' is a 1922 American silent adventure film directed by King Baggot and starring Reginald Denny.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/K/KentuckyDerby1922.html 'The Kentucky Derby' at silentera.com] It is based on a Broadway play 'The Suburban' by Charles T. Dazey.[http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=399711 'The Suburban: A Melodrama in Four Acts' produced on Broadway March 1903] It was produced and distributed by Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Denny's first starring feature-length movie.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=10059 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: 'The Kentucky Derby']
The film survives today.[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'The Kentucky Derby']
Cast
*Reginald Denny as Donald Gordon
*Lillian Rich as Alice Brown
*Emmett King as Col. Moncrief Gordon
*Walter McGrail as Ralph Gordon
*Gertrude Astor as Helen Gordon
*Lionel Belmore as Col. Rome Woolrich
*Kingsley Benedict as Joe
*Bert Woodruff as Rance Newcombe
*Bert Tracy as Topper Tom
*Harry Carter as Bob Thurston
*Wilfred Lucas as Capt. Wolff
*Pat Harmon as Jensen
*Anna Dodge as Mrs. Clancy (* billed as Anna Hernandez)
*Verne Winter as Timmy Clancy
See also
*Gertrude Astor filmography
References
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