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Film, Video The sunshine of Paradise Alley

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Title

  • The sunshine of Paradise Alley

Summary

  • A wealthy banker wants to tear down a tenement slum to build a factory, but a charming girl who lives there begins to persuade him to change his mind. A crooked bank employee and one of the tenement dwellers are stealing bonds from the bank. When they are about to be caught, they try to frame the girl and her boyfriend, and the bank employee attempts to force himself on the girl. All comes right in the end, and the banker decides to build new apartments for the tenement dwellers instead of a factory.

Names

  • Nelson, Jack, 1882-1948, film director
  • Quirk, Josephine, adaptor, contributor
  • Bedford, Barbara, 1903-1981, actor
  • Davidson, Max, 1875-1950, actor
  • Barrie, Nigel, 1889-1971, actor
  • Whitman, Gayne, actor
  • Nelson, Bobby, actor
  • Miller, Ernest, 1885-1957, cinematographer
  • Tetzlaff, Ted, 1903-1995, cinematographer
  • Sibley, Earl, technical director
  • Ryer, George W., contributor
  • Thompson, Denman, 1833-1911
  • Chadwick Pictures Corporation, production company, film distributor

Created / Published

  • United States : Chadwick Pictures Corporation, 1926.

Headings

  • -  Social classes--New York (State)--New York
  • -  Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York
  • -  Employee theft--New York (State)--New York

Genre

  • Melodramas (Motion pictures)
  • Silent films
  • Feature films
  • Fiction films

Notes

  • -  Intertitles in English.
  • -  Based on the stage play by Denman Thompson and George W. Ryer.
  • -  ©1927 copyright notice on film
  • -  Barbara Bedford, Max Davidson, Nigel Barrie, Gayne Whitman, Bobby Nelson, Kenneth McDonald, Lucille Lee Stewart, Tui Lorraine, J. Parks Jones, Frank Weed.
  • -  Cinematographers, Ernest Miller, Ted Tetzlaff ; technical director, Earl Sibley ; supervisor, Jesse J. Goldburg ; titles by Ruth Todd.
  • -  Sources used: AFI catalog, viewed online April 4, 2024; Motion Picture News, January 7, 1927, p. 94.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital) (approximately 75 min.) : si., b&w.

Source Collection

  • Jon C. Mirsalis Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024601076

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Nelson, Jack, Film Director, Josephine Quirk, Barbara Bedford, Max Davidson, Nigel Barrie, Gayne Whitman, Bobby Nelson, et al. The sunshine of Paradise Alley. produceds by Chadwick Pictures Corporationuction Company, Film Distributor United States: Chadwick Pictures Corporation, 1926. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024601076/.

APA citation style:

Nelson, J., Quirk, J., Bedford, B., Davidson, M., Barrie, N., Whitman, G. [...] Thompson, D. (1926) The sunshine of Paradise Alley. Chadwick Pictures Corporationuction Company, F. D., prod United States: Chadwick Pictures Corporation. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024601076/.

MLA citation style:

Nelson, Jack, Film Director, et al. The sunshine of Paradise Alley. prod by Chadwick Pictures Corporationuction Company, Film Distributor United States: Chadwick Pictures Corporation, 1926. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024601076/>.