A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Glorious Fool
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5392 feet
Directed by E. Mason Hopper

Cast: Helene Chadwick [Jane Brown], Richard Dix [Billy Grant], Vera Lewis [Miss Hart], Kate Lester [the headnurse], Otto Hoffman [the dummy], John Lince [Jenks], Theodore von Eltz [the senior surgical intern], Frederick Vroom [Mr. Lindley Grant], Lillian Langdon [Mrs. Lindley Grant], George Cooper [Al]

Goldwyn Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Goldwyn Distributing Corporation. / From an adaptation by J.G. Hawks of the short stories “In the Pavilion” and “Twenty-Two” by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Cinematography by John Mescall. / © 15 November 1921 by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation [LP17189]. Premiered circa 15 January 1922 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Released September 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 8 June 2013.

References: ClasIm-226 p. C10 : Website-AFI.