Grumpy (1923 film)

Grumpy
Directed by	William C. deMille
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky
Written by	Clara Beranger (adaptation, screenplay)
Based on	Grumpy by Horace Hodges and Thomas Wigney Percyval
Starring	Theodore Roberts
Cinematography	L. Guy Wilky
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	March 11, 1923
Running time	7 reels
Country	US
Language	Silent film English intertitles

Grumpy is a 1923 silent film drama distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on a 1913 Broadway play Grumpy by Horace Hodges and Thomas Wigney Percyval and starred English actor Cyril Maude. The director of this film is William C. deMille, brother of Cecil, and the star is Theodore Roberts. This film was remade by Paramount as an early sound film for Cyril Maude reprising his Broadway role. This silent version was thought to be long lost but a copy has been discovered in the Gosfilmofond Archive, Moscow Russia.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Cast

Theodore Roberts as Grumpy
May McAvoy as Virginia Bullivant
Conrad Nagel as Ernest Heron
Casson Ferguson as Chamberlin Jarvis
Bertram Johns as Keble
Charles Ogle as Ruddock
Robert Bolder as Dawson
Charles K. French as Wolfe
Bernice Frank as Susan
Bertram Frank as Jarvis' Valet

References

↑ Grumpy at silentera.com database
↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
↑ Grumpy as presented on Broadway at Wallack's Theatre, November 19, 1913 to April 1914, 181 performances; IBDb.com

External links

Films directed by William C. deMille

1910s	The Only Son (1914) The Ragamuffin (1916) The Blacklist (1916) The Sowers (1916) The Clown (1916) Common Ground (1916) Anton the Terrible (1916) The Heir to the Hoorah (1916) Hashimura Togo (1917) The Ghost House (1917) The Secret Game (1917) The Widow's Might (1918) One More American (1918) The Honor of His House (1918) Mirandy Smiles (1918) The Mystery Girl (1918) Peg o' My Heart (1919)

1920s	The Tree of Knowledge (1920) Jack Straw (1920) The Prince Chap (1920) Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1920) Midsummer Madness (1921) What Every Woman Knows (1921) The Lost Romance (1921) After the Show (1921) Miss Lulu Bett (1921) Bought and Paid For (1922) Nice People (1922) Clarence (1922) The World's Applause (1923) Grumpy (1923) Only 38 (1923) The Marriage Maker (1923) Don't Call It Love (1923) Icebound (1924) The Bedroom Window (1924) The Fast Set (1924) Locked Doors (1925) Men and Women (1925) Lost: A Wife (1925) New Brooms (1925) The Splendid Crime (1926) The Runaway (1926) For Alimony Only (1926) The Little Adventuress (1927) Craig's Wife (1928) Tenth Avenue (1928) The Doctor's Secret (1929) The Man Higher Up (1929) The Idle Rich (1929)

1930s	Passion Flower (1930) Two Kinds of Women (1932) His Double Life (1933)

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