sepiatone wrote:Harold, the new LoC database seems to be your Christmas present this year. You're having a field day. IN OLD KENTUCKY: this is the 1919 Metro Pictures, Mayer produced version, not the 1927 MGM remake of the same story?
Yes! Some people spend their time in Washington, DC touring monuments and government buildings, but I think I'd be at LOC watching Banner and Rayart movies.
Here are the notes for the 1919 version:
Director: Marshall Neilan
Star: Anita Stewart (Madge Brierly)
Archive: MGM preservatio
Copyright claimant: Associated First National Film Corp.
Registration number: Lp15856
Source: MGM laboratory preservation
Gauge: 35mm domestic release version
Holdings: studio/library
Completeness: complete
Studio holding: G
Note: info from Ned Price
and here's the info for the 1927:
Director: John M. Stahl
Star: James Murray (Jimmy Brierly)
Archive: MGM preservatio
Copyright claimant: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
Registration number: Lp25230
Source: MGM laboratory preservation
Gauge: 35mm domestic release version
Holdings: studio/library
Completeness: complete
Studio holding: G
Not that I'm trying to derail the conversation from Anita Stewart, but this brings up an important point. Entering "MGM preservation" in the field "All Notes Together" yields many pre-merger titles that I had never heard reported as extant, including
In Old Kentucky above,
Body and Soul (1920) with Alice Lake and
It's a Great Life (1920) with Cullen Landis.
The Night Rose (1921) is also there, even though Jon Mirsalis' Chaney index shows it as lost and even points to a vault inspection of the print that yielded the 1929
Voice of the City (which was an alternate title for the '21). In other words, I hope some of these aren't being mistaken for the later films that shared the same title. But if Ned Price says the 1919
In Old Kentucky exists, I'll take his word.
-HA