''College Days'' is a 1926 American silent

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film directed by

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and starring

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, Charles Delaney, and James Harrison. It was produced by the

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.Umphlett p. 173 The film's sets were designed by the

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Edwin B. Willis.

Synopsis

On his first day at the

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, Jim Gordon meets and falls in love with Mary Ward but also makes an enemy in Kenneth Slade. Mary's feelings are hurt when she sees Jim with another woman, and his attempts to make amends almost get him expelled. At the last moment he is called back to take part in a

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game, winning both it and the heart of Mary.

Cast

References

Bibliography

* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. * Oriard, Michael. ''King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press''. University of North Carolina Press, 2005. * Umphlett, Wiley Lee . ''The Movies Go to College: Hollywood and the World of the College-Life Film''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1984.

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* 1926 films 1926 comedy films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American comedy films American black-and-white films Tiffany Pictures films Films directed by Richard Thorpe Films set in universities and colleges 1920s American films English-language comedy films {{1920s-US-silent-comedy-film-stub