Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
About Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Julian, a poor painter, lives in Harlem with Edith and their newborn and takes magazine work to pay the rent. He goes to Paris, sure he will do better there. Edith stays in New York and works in a Fifth Avenue shop. A rich man courts her. She waits. Julian fails and comes back after three years. Their child has died. The two of them start again from different lives.
Cast & crew
More about Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Frank Borzage directed. Louis B. Mayer produced. Kenneth B. Clarke adapted a 1921 work by Zoë Akins. The Wikipedia lead calls that source a play. The infobox calls it a novel. Chester A. Lyons photographed it. Frank Sullivan edited. MGM released it on March 29, 1925. It was the only MGM film for Alice Joyce and for Percy Marmont. MGM remade the story in 1931 as Women Love Once.
Themes
Look
Chester A. Lyons shot the Harlem rooms, the Fifth Avenue shop, and the Paris stretch.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
A print is held at the Národní filmový archiv in Prague.
Notes
- Alice Joyce is Edith. Percy Marmont is Julian. Virginia Marshall, Helena D'Algy, Ford Sterling, Holmes Herbert, Edythe Chapman, and Kate Toncray are in the cast lists.
- Marmont had just been seen in If Winter Comes. Joyce had been a Vitagraph leading woman.
Scenes
- Julian leaves Edith and the baby for Paris.
- He comes back after three years, and the child is dead.
Influenced by
- Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1921), by Zoë Akins
Influenced
- Women Love Once (1931)
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-daddys-gone-a-hunting)
