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Fifth Avenue (film)

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Fifth Avenue
Still with Allan Forrest and Marguerite De La Motte
Directed byRobert G. Vignola
Written by
Starring
CinematographyJames Van Trees
Production
company
Belasco Productions
Distributed byProducers Distributing Corporation
Release date
  • January 24, 1926 (1926-01-24)
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Fifth Avenue ad in Motion Picture News, 1926

Fifth Avenue is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by Robert G. Vignola and starring Marguerite De La Motte, Allan Forrest, and Louise Dresser.[1][2][3]

Plot

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As described in a film magazine review,[4] Barbara Pelham, a young woman who arrives in New York City from the South to obtain an advance on her father’s cotton crop, is lured into staying at a disorderly house. It is here that Peter Heffner, the broker from whom she sought a loan, makes unwelcome advances to her. She flees the house just prior to it being raided by the police. Later she meets Neil Heffner, the son of the broker. A friendship that ripens to love forms between the young people. The young man’s father tries to discredit the young woman by calling her a prostitute, but her name is cleared by an explanation by Mrs. Kemp, who was the keeper of the resort.

Cast

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Preservation

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With no prints of Fifth Avenue located in any film archives,[5] it is a lost film.

References

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  1. ^ Munden p. 235
  2. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: Fifth Avenue
  3. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Fifth Avenue at silentera.com
  4. ^ "New Pictures: Fifth Avenue". Exhibitors Herald. 24 (4). Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co.: 70 January 9, 1926. Retrieved January 31, 2023. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Fifth Avenue

Bibliography

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  • Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
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