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

Cast: Marguerite Clark [Bab Archibald], Nigel Barrie [Carter Brooks], Leonora Morgan [Jane Gray], Frank Losee [Mr. Archibald], Isabel O’Madigan [Mrs. Archibald], Richard Barthelmess [Tommy Gray], Helen Greene [Leila Archibald], Guy Coombs [Harry], Jack O’Brien [Harold Valentine], George Odell [the butler]

Famous Players Film Company production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Paramount Picture]. / Scenario by Martha D. Foster, from the short story “Her Diary” by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Cinematography by Lewis W. Physioc. Presented by Adolph Zukor. / © 17 September 1917 by Famous Players Film Company [LP11407]. Released 7 October 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Followed by Bab’s Burglar (1917).

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0197.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 March 2024.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0197; Katchmer-Eighty p. 18; Slide-Aspects p. 47.