''Missing Millions'' is a 1922 American
silent drama film
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directed by
Joseph Henabery
Joseph Henabery (January 15, 1888 – February 18, 1976) of Omaha, Nebraska, was a film actor, screenplay writer, and director in the United States. He is best known for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in D.W. Griffith's controversial 1915 sile ...
and written by Jack Boyle and Albert S. Le Vino. The
Boston Blackie
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film stars
Alice Brady
Alice Brady (born Mary Rose Brady; November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939) was an American actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. She worked until six months before her death from cancer in ...
,
David Powell David Powell may refer to:
* Dai Powell (David Morgan Powell, born 1935), Welsh footballer, full back for Blackpool and Rochdale
* Dave Powell (1876–1953), Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne
* David Powell (actor) (1883� ...
,
Frank Losee
Frank Losee (June 12, 1856 – November 14, 1937) was an American stage and screen actor. A veteran of the Broadway stage he began in silent films in 1915. Often he played the father of Mary Pickford, Pauline Frederick and Marguerite Clark.
Car ...
,
Riley Hatch
William Riley Hatch (September 2, 1862 – September 6, 1925) was an American singer and actor on stage and in silent films.
Hatch's Broadway debut came in ''The Burgomaster'' (1900); his final Broadway appearance was in ''The Nervous Wreck'' ...
, John B. Cooke,
William B. Mack, and George LeGuere. The film was released on September 17, 1922, by
Paramount Pictures
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.
Cast
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Alice Brady
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as Mary Dawson
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David Powell David Powell may refer to:
* Dai Powell (David Morgan Powell, born 1935), Welsh footballer, full back for Blackpool and Rochdale
* Dave Powell (1876–1953), Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne
* David Powell (actor) (1883� ...
as
Boston Blackie
Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle (1881–1928). Blackie, a jewel thief and safecracker in Boyle's stories, became a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television—an "enemy to those who make him ...
*
Frank Losee
Frank Losee (June 12, 1856 – November 14, 1937) was an American stage and screen actor. A veteran of the Broadway stage he began in silent films in 1915. Often he played the father of Mary Pickford, Pauline Frederick and Marguerite Clark.
Car ...
as Jim Franklin
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Riley Hatch
William Riley Hatch (September 2, 1862 – September 6, 1925) was an American singer and actor on stage and in silent films.
Hatch's Broadway debut came in ''The Burgomaster'' (1900); his final Broadway appearance was in ''The Nervous Wreck'' ...
as Detective John Webb
*John B. Cooke as Handsome Harry Hawks
*
William B. Mack as Thomas Dawson
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George LeGuere as Daniel Regan
*Alice May as Mrs. Regan
*
H. Cooper Cliffe
Henry Cooper Cliffe (19 July 1862 – 1 May 1939) was a British stage and screen actor a member of a distinguished family of English actors, his father was Clifford Cooper, mother Agnes Kemble, and his brother was Frank Kemble Cooper. Frank's da ...
as Sir Arthur Cumberland
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Sydney Deane
Sydney Leslie Deane (1 March 1863 – 20 March 1934) was a first-class cricketer and entertainer, and the first Australian to appear in a Hollywood movie.
Biography In Australia
Born in Balmain, Sydney, to Edward and Sophia, Deane was a pr ...
as Donald Gordon
*Beverly Travers as Claire Dupont
*Sidney Herbert as Frank Garber
Preservation status
''Missing Millions'' is considered to be a
lost film
A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress.
Conditions
During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy ...
.
The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''Missing Millions''
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1922 films
1920s English-language films
Silent American drama films
1922 drama films
Paramount Pictures films
Films directed by Joseph Henabery
American black-and-white films
Lost American drama films
American silent feature films
Boston Blackie films
1922 lost films
English-language drama films
1920s American films
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