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As described in a film magazine review, a young city woman with advanced ideas marries a small town doctor, and go to live in a backwoods burg. Her irritation at the small talk and petty incidents which make up the lives of the townspeople finally culminate in her leaving home and going to work as a
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Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 2 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
255:. A Broadway play version of the novel was produced in 1921. It was the first film to be released after the foundation of Warner Bros. Pictures on April 4, 1923. 1505: 548: 105: 596: 1544: 1498: 1549: 635: 1559: 1574: 1539: 1491: 1534: 1092: 607: 691: 1554: 741: 1569: 791: 1323: 1273: 992: 731: 628: 1353: 1243: 1193: 1042: 534: 264:
government clerk in Washington, D.C. After a time her husband follows her there and there is a reunion.
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According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $ 510,000 domestically and $ 46,000 foreign.
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as produced on Broadway at the National Theatre October 5, 1921 to December 1921; IBDb.com
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1957 Movies from AAP Warner Bros Features & Cartoons Sales Book Directed at TV
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This article about a silent drama film from the 1920s is a
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Lobby card
Harry Beaumont
Julien Josephson
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
Florence Vidor
Monte Blue
Alan Hale, Sr.
Louise Fazenda
Edwin B. Du Par
Homer Scott
Harry Beaumont
Warner Bros.
reels
Silent
intertitles
silent
drama film
novel of the same name
Sinclair Lewis
Warner Bros.
Harry Beaumont
Florence Vidor
Monte Blue
Harry Myers
Robert Gordon
Noah Beery
Alan Hale
Louise Fazenda

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