From the Southern California estate sale of a silent film collector! Very hard to find original silent film movie theater herald for OUR MRS. McCHESNEY.
Our Mrs. McChesney is a lost 1918 American silent comedy drama film produced and distributed by Metro Pictures, directed by Ralph Ince, and based on the 1915 play by Edna Ferber and George V. Hobart which starred Ethel Barrymore. Barrymore reprised her role from the popular play, as did her fellow cast members Huntley Gordon and William H. St. James. Wilfred Lytell was a brother of Bert Lytell and Lucille Lee Stewart was a sister of Anita Stewart. Ince was married to Lucille Lee Stewart.
As described in a film magazine, Emma McChesney (Barrymore), saleswoman for T. A. Buck & Co., plans to give up the "road" and settle down with her boy Jack (Lytell). She discovers that Jack has married a chorus girl while at college and also raised a check that she had sent him. Determined to make a man of him, she secures a position for him at T. A. Buck & Co. and sends the daughter-in-law to a boarding school. She designs a new skirt for the company that finds favor at a fashion show when modeled by Jack's wife, and saves the company from bankruptcy.
"Our Mrs. McChesney is a business romance, filled with action, brilliance and heart interest. It is a screen version of the famous Emma McChesney stories, by Edna Ferber. The celebrated star, Ethel Barrymore, fell in love with the character of Emma in the stories, and played the part on the dramatic stage. She has now achieved a still greater triumph in depicting the joys and sorrows of Emma on the screen. As the star saleswoman, then later the secretary, of the T. A. Buck company, manufacturing "Featherloom" petticoats, Emma McChesney brings lasting success to the firm, wrestling victory from defeat when bankruptcy seems in inevitable. How she makes a man of her son, Jack, and how her own life's happiness is finally attained, are incidents in a story that is a delight from start to finish. You can't afford to miss Our Mrs. McChesney."
Ethel Barrymore as Emma McChesney
Huntley Gordon as T. A. Buck Jr.
Wilfred Lytell as Jack McChesney
Lucille Lee Stewart as Vera Sherwood
John Daly Murphy as Abel Fromkin
Walter Percival as 'Beauty' Blair
William H. St. James as 'Fat' Ed Myers
Ricca Allen as Hattie Stitch
George S. Trimble as Joe Greenbaum
Sammy Cooper as Izzy Greenbaum (*Samuel Colt; son of Ethel Barrymore)
Fred Walters as Sam Harrison
When opened up completely it’s 5.5 x 7 inches. Used condition, torn corner, etc. Please examine the images closely and ask any questions before purchasing. Shipped flat, solid and secure, inside of an archival quality extra thick 2 mil Crystal Clear resealable protective closure bag sleeve. Inventory# silentfilmcollection.
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