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Humoresque
Advertisement for screening of the film at Tremont Temple, Boston, 1920
Directed byFrank Borzage
Written byWilliam LeBaron
Frances Marion
Story byFannie Hurst
Produced byWilliam Randolph Hearst (uncredited)
StarringGaston Glass
Vera Gordon
Bobby Connelly
Alma Rubens
CinematographyGilbert Warrenton
Music byHugo Riesenfeld
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • May 30, 1920 (1920-05-30) (United States)
Running time
71 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Humoresque (1920) is an American silent film drama produced by Cosmopolitan Productions, released by Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount Pictures, and was directed by Frank Borzage from a novel by Fannie Hurst and script or scenario by Frances Marion.

This film was the first film to win the Photoplay Medal of Honor, a precursor of the Academy Award for Best Picture.[2]

In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[3]

Cast

  • Gaston Glass - Leon Kantor
  • Vera Gordon - Mama Kantor
  • Alma Rubens - Gina Berg (aka Minnie Ginsberg)
  • Dore Davidson - Abraham Kantor
  • Bobby Connelly - Leon Kantor (child)
  • Helen Connelly - Esther Kantor (child)
  • Ann Wallack - Esther Kantor (adult)(*billed Ann Wallick)
  • Sidney Carlyle - Mannie Kantor
  • Joseph Cooper - Isadore Kantor (child)
  • Maurice Levigne - Isadore Kantor (adult)
  • Alfred Goldberg - Rudolph Kantor (child)
  • Edward Stanton - Rudolph Kantor (adult)
  • Louis Stern - Sol Ginsberg (*as Louis Stearns)
  • Maurice Peckre - Boris Kantor
  • Ruth Sabin - Mrs. Isadore Kantor
  • Miriam Battista - Minnie Ginsberg (child)

Preservation status

The film has undergone a restoration at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Humoresque". YouTube. 1920. Film preserved by the UCLA Film, Television & Radio Archives.
  2. ^ "Photoplay Awards, Awards for 1920, Medal of Honor Winner".
  3. ^ Mike Barnes (December 16, 2015). "'Ghostbusters,' 'Top Gun,' 'Shawshank' Enter National Film Registry". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
  4. ^ Humoresque at SilentEra
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