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Mrs. Black is Back
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Four reels
Directed by T.N. Heffron (Thomas N. Heffron)

Cast: May Irwin [Mrs. Black], Charles Lane [Professor Newton Black], Clara Blandick [Emily Mason], Wellington A. Playter [Tom Larkey], Elmer Booth [Jack Dangerfield], James Hester [Major Thorne], Cyril Chadwick [Bramley Bush], Marie Pavis [Priscilla Black], Howard Missimer [valet]

Famous Players Film Company production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / From the play Mrs. Black is Back by George V. Hobart. Presented by Daniel Frohman. / Released 30 November 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Irwin’s second and last film, after The May Irwin Kiss (1896). The production exteriors were shot on-location at May Irwin’s summer home in Clayton, New York, on her request.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2998.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: USA: New York: Thousand Islands

Listing updated: 27 June 2008.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2998; Tarbox-Lost p. 205 : ClasIm-278 p. C15.