McTeague (film)

McTeague (film)
McTeague
(aka Life's a Whirlpool)
Directed by Barry O'Neil
Produced by William A. Brady(via William A. Brady Picture Plays)
Written by Frank Norris(novel)
Barry O'Neil(scenario)
E. Magnus Ingleton(scenario)
Starring Holbrook Blinn
Fania Marinoff
Distributed by World Film
Release date(s) January 10, 1916
Running time 5 reels
Country United States
Language Silent film(English intertitles)

McTeague (aka Life's a Whirlpool) is a 1916 silent film drama, the first filming of Frank Norris's 1899 novel McTeague. The stars of the film were Holbrook Blinn and Fania Marinoff whose roles were played seven years later by Gibson Gowland and Zasu Pitts in Eric von Stroheim's notorious opus Greed, originally 9 hrs. Blinn was already famous for playing brutal characters on the stage such as in Salvation Nell, 1908. The 1916 film is listed as being directed by Barry O'Neil. The film is lost. [1] [2]

Cast

  • Holbrook Blinn - McTeague
  • Fania Marinoff - Trina
  • Walter Green - Marcus Schuller
  • Philip Robson - Mr. Sieppe
  • Julia Stuart - Mrs. Sieppe
  • Rosemary Dean - Selina Sieppe
  • Eleanor Blanchard - Maria Cappa

References

  1. ^ McTeague (aka Life's a Whirlpool) at the silentera.com database
  2. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988

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