13 Washington Square
About 13 Washington Square
Mrs. de Peyster (Alice Joyce) plans a trip to Europe to split her son Jack (George J. Lewis) from Mary Morgan, a grocer's daughter. Jack refuses to sail and means to marry at once. To dodge reporters, Mrs. de Peyster swaps clothes with a poorer cousin, who takes the ship. With her maid Mathilde (Zasu Pitts), posing as her sister, she goes to cousin Olivetta's boarding house. Deacon Pyecroft (Jean Hersholt), a picture thief who lives there and plans to rob the de Peyster house, takes the two women for fellow crooks. That night everyone converges on the closed house at 13 Washington Square.
Cast & crew
More about 13 Washington Square
Melville W. Brown directed. Harry O. Hoyt adapted it and Walter Anthony collaborated. Carl Laemmle produced. Universal released it on 8 April 1928, from Leroy Scott's 1914 play No. 13 Washington Square. The English Wikipedia gives 70 minutes. Wikidata lists 60.
Themes
Background
A Universal comedy of April 1928, from Leroy Scott's play about a Washington Square house and a mother who will not meet her son's fiancée.
Preservation
Prints are at UCLA and the Library of Congress. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Wikidata lists 60 minutes.
- Copies are at the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Library of Congress.
- Helen Foster and Helen Jerome Eddy are in the catalog cast. The English Wikipedia does not assign them Mary's role.
Scenes
- Mrs. de Peyster changes clothes with her cousin at the steamer.
- Pyecroft, Jack, Mary, and Mrs. de Peyster all arrive at the dark house.
Influenced by
- Leroy Scott's play No. 13 Washington Square (1914)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (13 Washington Square (1928) by Melville W. Brown.webm)
