Is Life Worth Living?
1921 film
- Eugene O'Brien
- Winifred Westover
- Arthur Housman
Production
company
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Selznick Pictures
Release date
- June 1921 (1921-06)
Running time
Is Life Worth Living? is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Eugene O'Brien, Winifred Westover and Arthur Housman.[1]
Plot
Released on suspended sentence after being tried for a crime of which he is innocent, Melville Marley becomes a salesman for a typewriter-supply house. Unable to succeed in this venture, he buys a revolver in a pawnshop and goes to Central Park to kill himself. There he encounters Lois, a young girl who faints from despair and hunger on a park bench, and after taking her to his boardinghouse and securing her accommodation, he sets out with new determination and turns in a large order. Receiving a credit extension, he goes into business for himself; and with help from Lois, his new stenographer, a thriving business develops, and so does their love.
Cast
- Eugene O'Brien as Melville Marley
- Winifred Westover as Lois Mason
- Arthur Housman as Jimmy Colton
- George Lessey as Lawyer
- Warren Cook as Joseph Gordon
- Arthur Donaldson as Isaac - Pawnbroker
- Florida Kingsley as Mrs. Grant
Preservation status
A copy survives in the Museum of Modern Art archives.[2][3]
References
Bibliography
- Monaco, James. The Encyclopedia of Film. Perigee Books, 1991.
External links
- Is Life Worth Living? at IMDb
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Films directed by Alan Crosland
- Kidnapped (1917)
- The Light in Darkness (1917)
- The Little Chevalier (1917)
- The Apple Tree Girl (1917)
- Chris and His Wonderful Lamp (1917)
- The Whirlpool (1918)
- The Unbeliever (1918)
- The Country Cousin (1919)
- The Flapper (1920)
- The Point of View (1920)
- Broadway and Home (1920)
- Youthful Folly (1920)
- Everybody's Sweetheart (1920)
- Room and Board (1921)
- Worlds Apart (1921)
- Is Life Worth Living? (1921)
- Shadows of the Sea (1922)
- The Snitching Hour (1922)
- Slim Shoulders (1922)
- Why Announce Your Marriage? (1922)
- The Face in the Fog (1922)
- The Prophet's Paradise (1922)
- Enemies of Women (1923)
- Under the Red Robe (1923)
- Three Weeks (1924)
- Miami (1924)
- Unguarded Women (1924)
- Sinners in Heaven (1924)
- Contraband (1925)
- Bobbed Hair (1925)
- Compromise (1925)
- Don Juan (1926)
- When a Man Loves (1927)
- The Beloved Rogue (1927)
- Old San Francisco (1927)
- The Jazz Singer (1927)
- Glorious Betsy (1928)
- The Scarlet Lady (1928)
- On with the Show! (1929)
- General Crack (1929)
- The Furies (1930)
- Song of the flame (1930)
- Viennese Nights (1930)
- Captain Thunder (1930)
- Big Boy (1930)
- Children of Dreams (1931)
- The Silver Lining (1932)
- Week Ends Only (1932)
- Massacre (1934)
- The Personality Kid (1934)
- Midnight Alibi (1934)
- The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
- It Happened in New York (1935)
- Mister Dynamite (1935)
- Lady Tubbs (1935)
- King Solomon of Broadway (1935)
- The Great Impersonation (1935)
- The White Cockatoo (1935)
- The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
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