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The Primrose Path
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5475 feet
Directed by Harry O. Hoyt

Cast: Wallace MacDonald [Bruce Armstrong], Clara Bow [Marilyn Merrill], Arline Pretty [Helen], Stuart Holmes [Tom Canfield], Pat Moore [Jimmy Armstrong], Tom Santschi [Big Jim Snead], Lydia Knott [Mrs. Armstrong], Templar Saxe [Dude Talbot]

Arrow Pictures Corporation production; distributed on State Rights basis by [?] Arrow Pictures Corporation? / Scenario by Leah Baird, from the short story “The Primrose Path” by E. Lanning Masters. Cinematography by André Barlatier. / © 5 September 1925 by Arrow Pictures Corporation [LP21793]. Released [?] 15 September or 11 October? 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive (John Hampton / Stanford Theatre Foundation collection).

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 20 May 2018.

References: FilmYearBook-1926 pp. 51, 61; Limbacher-Feature p. 193; Paris-Brooks p. 129; Vermilye-Twenties p. 165; Weaver-Twenty p. 56 : ClasIm-225 p. 12 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.

Streaming: Amazon.