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Bab’s Burglar
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by J. Searle Dawley

Cast: Marguerite Clark [Bab Archibald], Leone Morgan [Jane Raleigh], Richard Barthelmess ]Tommy Gray], Frank Losee [Mr. Archibald], Isabel O’Madigan [Mrs. Archibald], Helen Greene [Leila Archibald], Nigel Barrie [Carter Brooks], Guy Coombs [Harry], George Odell (George Benjamin O’Dell) [the butler], Daisy Belmore, William Hinckley

Famous Players Film Company production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Paramount Picture]. / From the short story “Bab’s Burglar” by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Cinematography by Lewis W. Physioc and H. Lyman Broening. Presented by Adolph Zukor. / © 18 October 1917 by Famous Players Film Company [LP11581]. Released 28 October 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Some location photography was taken at the Maxine Elliott Theatre in New York, New York. Preceeded by Bab’s Diary (1917). Followed by Bab’s Matinee Idol (1917).

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0195.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 26 December 2024.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0195; Katchmer-Eighty p. 18 : Website-IMDb.