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The First Night
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5500 feet
Directed by Richard Thorpe

Cast: Bert Lytell [Doctor Richard Bard], Dorothy Devore [Doris Frazer], Harry Myers [the hotel detective], Frederic Kovert [Mimi / Jack White], Walter Hiers [Mr. Cleveland], Lila Leslie [Mrs. Cleveland], James Mack [the drunk], Hazel Keener [Miss Leeds], Joan Standing [Mrs. Miller]

Tiffany Productions, Incorporated, production. / Scenario by Esther Shulkin, from a screen story by Frederica Sagor. Art direction by Edwin B. Willis. Cinematography by Milton Moore and Mack Stengler. Film editor, James C. McKay. / © 3 February 1927 by Tiffany Productions, Incorporated [LP23630]. Released 1 January 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Comedy: Romance.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 15 July 2010.

References: Website-AFI.