Man Bait (1926 film)

Man Bait
Man Bait
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Directed by	Donald Crisp
Written by	Douglas Z. Doty
Based on	"Man Bait"; by Norman Houston
Starring	Marie Prevost; Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; Kenneth Thomson;
Cinematography	Harold Rosson
Production; company	Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date	December 27, 1926;
Running time	6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Man Bait is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Donald Crisp and starring Marie Prevost, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Kenneth Thomson.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Plot

After she is fired from her role as a shopgirl in a department store, Madge finds work as a taxi dancer. At the dance hall she meets and falls in love with a young man from a wealthy background.

Cast

Marie Prevost as Madge Dreyer
Kenneth Thomson as Gerald Sanford
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Jeff Sanford
Louis Natheaux as Delancy Hasbrouck
Eddie Gribbon as Red Welch
Betty Francisco as Betty Gerber
Adda Gleason as Florence Hasbrouck
Sally Rand as Nancy
Fritzi Ridgeway as Gloria

Preservation

With no prints of Man Bait located in any film archives, it is a lost film.^[5]

References

^ Progressive Silent Film List: Man Bait at silentera.com
^ "Man Bait (1926) - Overview, TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
^ McCaffrey, Donald W.; Jacobs, Christopher P. (1999). Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-313-30345-6.
^ Vance & Maietta p. 198
^ List of 7200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films 1912-29. (last updated 12/29/16) Library of Congress (PDF)

Bibliography

Jeffrey Vance & Tony Maietta. Douglas Fairbanks. University of California Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-520-25667-5

External links

Man Bait at IMDb

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[1] Progressive Silent Film List: Man Bait at silentera.com

[2] "Man Bait (1926) - Overview, TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved September 8, 2020.

[3] McCaffrey, Donald W.; Jacobs, Christopher P. (1999). Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-313-30345-6.

[4] Vance & Maietta p. 198

[5] List of 7200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films 1912-29. (last updated 12/29/16) Library of Congress (PDF)

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