Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
1928 film
- September 9, 1928 (1928-09-09) (U.S.)
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Anybody Here Seen Kelly? is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by William Wyler. This was the first non-Western film to be directed by Wyler.[3] Produced by Universal Pictures, this is Bessie Love's final silent film.
Plot
While serving in the American Army during World War I, Pat Kelly (Moore), a womanizing soldier, tells all the young women he romances to come and visit him in New York City after the war. Never expecting any of them to take him up on it, he gives his address as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, Mitzi Lavelle (Love), one determined young French woman, comes to America looking for him. Walking through the streets of New York, she eventually finds him working as a traffic police officer.[4]
Cast
- Bessie Love as Mitzi Lavelle
- Tom Moore as Pat Kelly
- Kate Price as Mrs. O'Grady
- Addie McPhail as Mrs. Hickson
- Bruce Gordon as Mr. Hickson
- Alfred Allen as Sgt. Malloy
- Tom O'Brien as Buck Johnson
- Wilson Benge as Butler
- Rosa Gore as French Mother
- Dorothea Wolbert as Slavey
Production
Location scenes were filmed in New York City.[2]
The title of the film originates from the 1908 British music hall standard "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" by C. W. Murphy and Will Letters. The song was popularized in the United States by singer Nora Bayes who sang it in the first ever Ziegfeld Follies.
Preservation
With no prints of Anybody Here Seen Kelly? in any film archives,[5] it is a lost film.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Love, Bessie (1977). From Hollywood with Love: An Autobiography of Bessie Love. London: Elm Tree Books. p. 153. OCLC 734075937.
- ^ a b Madsen, Axel (1973). William Wyler: the Authorized Biography. New York: Crowell. pp. 59–60. ISBN 0-690-00083-9.
- ^ Bennett, Carl (August 19, 2009). "Progressive Silent Film List: Anybody Here Seen Kelly?". Silent Era.
- ^ Munden, Kenneth W., ed. (1971). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films 1921–1930. New York: R.R. Bowker Company. pp. 21–22. OCLC 664500075.
- ^ [https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3453/ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
- ^ Andersen, Arne. "Anybody Here Seen Kelly?". Lost Film Files for Universal Studios 1928.
External links
- Anybody Here Seen Kelly? at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Anybody Here Seen Kelly? at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Anybody Here Seen Kelly? at the TCM Movie Database
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Films directed by William Wyler
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- Lazy Lightning (1926)
- Straight Shootin' (1927)
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- Desert Dust (1927)
- Hard Fists (1927)
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- Thunder Riders (1928)
- The Shakedown (1929)
- The Love Trap (1929)
- Hell's Heroes (1930)
- The Storm (1930)
- A House Divided (1931)
- Tom Brown of Culver (1932)
- Her First Mate (1933)
- Counsellor at Law (1933)
- Glamour (1934)
- The Good Fairy (1935)
- The Gay Deception (1935)
- These Three (1936)
- Dodsworth (1936)
- Come and Get It (1936)
- Dead End (1937)
- Jezebel (1938)
- Wuthering Heights (1939)
- The Westerner (1940)
- The Letter (1940)
- The Little Foxes (1941)
- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- Thunderbolt (1947)
- The Heiress (1949)
- Detective Story (1951)
- Carrie (1952)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- The Desperate Hours (1955)
- Friendly Persuasion (1956)
- The Big Country (1958)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- The Children's Hour (1961)
- The Collector (1965)
- How to Steal a Million (1966)
- Funny Girl (1968)
- The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
- Five Came Back
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