Maytime
About Maytime
Ottilie Van Zandt is made to marry her cousin though she loves Richard Wayne, the gardener's son. He leaves to become rich enough to suit her family and returns to find her married, then marries another woman on impulse. Two generations later their grandchildren, who share their names, meet and fall in love.
Cast & crew
More about Maytime
Louis J. Gasnier directed and B.P. Schulberg produced, with Ethel Shannon, Harrison Ford, William Norris, Wallace MacDonald, and an early Clara Bow role. It adapts the Sigmund Romberg musical with a book by Rida Johnson Young. Wikidata lists 80 minutes and 1923; a different film of the same title was made in 1937.
Themes
Notes
- The 1937 Maytime is a separate adaptation of the same musical.
- Clara Bow's part is one of her earliest screen roles.
- Josef Swickard is on the catalog cast.
Influenced by
- Sigmund Romberg and Rida Johnson Young's Maytime
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-maytime)
