Our Mrs. McChesney

1918 American film

Our Mrs. McChesney
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Directed by	Ralph Ince
Written by	Luther Reed (scenario)
Based on	Our Mrs. McChesney by Edna Ferber and George V. Hobart
Produced by	Maxwell Karger
Starring	Ethel Barrymore
Cinematography	William J. Black
Production company	Metro Pictures
Distributed by	Metro Pictures
Release date	August 18, 1918 (1918年8月18日)
Running time	50 minutes; 5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

still from the film with Lucille Lee Stewart, Wilfred Lytell and Ethel Barrymore. *note sometimes the still is attributed to The Beloved Rogue .

Our Mrs. McChesney is a lost ^[1] 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 starring Ethel Barrymore.^[2]

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.^[3] Ince was married to Lucille Lee Stewart.

Plot

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As described in a film magazine,^[4] 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.

Cast

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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

References

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^ "Our Mrs. McChesney". silentera.com.
^ "Our Mrs. McChesney". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Database.
^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20, The American Film Institute, c. 1988
^ "Reviews: Our Mrs. McChesney". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (14). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 26. September 28, 1918.