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Marion Davies (left).
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Tillie the Toiler
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6160 feet
Directed by Hobart Henley
Cast: Marion Davies [Tillie Jones], Matt Moore [Mac], Harry Crocker [Pennington Fish], George Fawcett [Mr. Simpkins], George K. Arthur [Mr. Whipple], Estelle Clark [Sadie], Bert Roach [Bill], Gertrude Short [‘Bubbles’], Claire McDowell [Maude Jones], Arthur Hoyt [Mr. Smythe]
Cosmopolitan Productions production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [Marion Davies Productions]. / Produced by Irving Thalberg. Scenario by A.P. Younger, from the screen story adaptation by Agnes Christine Johnston and Edward T. Lowe Jr. of the comic strip “Tillie the Toiler” by Russ Westover. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and David Townsend. Costume design by André-ani. Cinematography by William Daniels. Film editor, Daniel J. Gray. Intertitles written by Ralph Spence. / © 23 May 1927 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP24004]. Released 21 May 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / MGM production number 297. MGM release number 737. / Silent film.
Comedy-Drama.
Survival status: Print exists in the film holdings of [?] Amazon MGM Studios and/or Turner Entertainment Company and/or Warner Brothers Classics?
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 3 December 2024.
References: Davies-Times pp. 54, 246 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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