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Humoresque  (1920)


Director Frank Borzage scored his first major hit with this Frances Marion adaptation of a story by Fannie Hurst about an impoverished Jewish violin prodigy whose success allows him to marry his sweetheart and move his family out of the ghetto.  When the U.S. enters WWI, however, he joins the fight with tragic consequences—until love shows him the way.

Production: Cosmopolitan Productions.  Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky Corp.; Paramount-Artcraft Pictures.  Director: Frank Borzage.  Based on the story “Humoresque” by Fannie Hurst.  Screenwriter: Frances Marion.  Cinematographer: Gilbert Warrenton.  With: Gaston Glass, Vera Gordon, Alma Rubens, Dore Davidson, Bobby Connelly.  35mm, b/w, silent, 60 min.