- Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
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For other uses, see Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969 film).
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting 
Lobby CardDirected by Frank Borzage Written by Kenneth B. Clarke based on a novel by Zoe Akins Starring Alice Joyce
Percy MarmontDistributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Release date(s) 29 March 1925 Running time 60 minutes Country United States Language Silent
English intertitlesDaddy's Gone A-Hunting is a 1925 drama film directed by Frank Borzage based upon a play by Zoe Akins, with adaptation by Kenneth B. Clarke. The film brought together Vitagraph leading lady Alice Joyce and English actor Percy Marmont after his success with If Winter Comes. This is the only film either of the main stars made for MGM[1]. The film was remade in 1931 as Women Love Once. A print survives in the Narodni Filmovy Archiv.[2]
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Plot
Julian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their newborn baby in Harlem. Struggling to make ends meet, he foregoes his artistic calling and draws for magazines. Reaching his limits, Julian convinces his wife he could reach higher grounds if he were to go to Paris. He moves to Paris while his Edith works at a shop on Fifth Avenue. Each of their lives evolves differently—Edith is courted by a wealthy suitor whom she ignores while pining for her husband, while Julian fails to meet his goals in Paris, returning defeated three years later. The meeting highlight how different their routes have been.
Cast
- Alice Joyce - Edith
- Percy Marmont - Julian
- Virginia Marshall - Janet
- Helena D'Algy - Olga
- Ford Sterling - Oscar
- Holmes Herbert - Greenough
References
- ^ Eames, John Douglas, The MGM Story, 1981
- ^ Daddy's Gone a Hunting at the silentera.com database
External links
The films of Frank Borzage 1910s The Pride and the Man • Dollars of Dross • Land o' Lizards • Immediate Lee • Flying Colors • Until They Get Me • The Gun Woman • The Curse of Iku • The Shoes That Danced • Innocent's Progress • Society for Sale • An Honest Man • Who Is to Blame? • The Ghost Flower • The Atom • Toton the Apache • Whom the Gods Would Destroy • Prudence on Broadway1920s Humoresque • The Duke of Chimney Butte • Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford • Back Pay • Billy Jim • The Good Provider • The Valley of Silent Men • The Pride of Palomar • The Nth Commandment • Children of the Dust • The Age of Desire • Secrets • The Lady • Daddy's Gone A-Hunting • The Circle • Lazybones • Wages for Wives • The First Year • The Dixie Merchant • Early to Wed • Marriage License? • Seventh Heaven • Street Angel • Lucky Star • They Had to See Paris • The River1930s Song o' My Heart • Liliom • Doctors' Wives • Young as You Feel • Bad Girl • After Tomorrow • Young America • A Farewell to Arms • Secrets • Man's Castle • No Greater Glory • Little Man, What Now? • Flirtation Walk • Living on Velvet • Stranded • Shipmates Forever • Desire • Hearts Divided • Green Light • History Is Made at Night • Big City • Mannequin • Three Comrades • The Shining Hour • Disputed Passage1940s Strange Cargo • The Mortal Storm • Flight Command • Smilin' Through • The Vanishing Virginian • Seven Sweethearts • Stage Door Canteen • His Butler's Sister • Till We Meet Again • The Spanish Main • Magnificent Doll • I've Always Loved You • That's My Man • Moonrise1950s Television Screen Directors Playhouse (1955–1956)Categories:- American films
- 1925 films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- Silent films
- 1920s drama films
- Black-and-white films
- Films directed by Frank Borzage
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