Anybody Here Seen Kelly?

Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
	Film still with Love holding sheet music
Directed by	William Wyler
Written by	Leigh Jason (story); Walter Anthony (titles); Albert DeMond (titles); John B. Clymer; Rob Wagner
Produced by	Richard Wyler
Starring	Bessie Love; Tom Moore; Kate Price; Addie McPhail; Bruce Gordon; Alfred Allen
Cinematography	Charles J. Stumar
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	September 9, 1928 (U.S.);
Running time	1 hour 20 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)
Budget	$60,000

Anybody Here Seen Kelly? is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by William Wyler. This was the first non-Western film to be directed by Wyler.^[3] Produced by Universal Pictures, this is Bessie Love's final silent film.

Plot

While serving in the American Army during World War I, Pat Kelly (Moore), a womanizing soldier, tells all the young women he romances to come and visit him in New York City after the war. Never expecting any of them to take him up on it, he gives his address as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, Mitzi Lavelle (Love), one determined young French woman, comes to America looking for him. Walking through the streets of New York, she eventually finds him working as a traffic police officer.^[4]

Cast

Bessie Love as Mitzi Lavelle
Tom Moore as Pat Kelly
Kate Price as Mrs. O'Grady
Addie McPhail as Mrs. Hickson
Bruce Gordon as Mr. Hickson
Alfred Allen as Sgt. Malloy
Tom O'Brien as Buck Johnson
Wilson Benge as Butler
Rosa Gore as French Mother
Dorothea Wolbert as Slavey

Production

Location scenes were filmed in New York City.^[2]

The title of the film originates from the 1908 British music hall standard "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" by C. W. Murphy and Will Letters. The song was popularized in the United States by singer Nora Bayes who sang it in the first ever Ziegfeld Follies.

Preservation

With no prints of Anybody Here Seen Kelly? in any film archives,^[5] it is a lost film.^[6]

References

^ Love, Bessie (1977). From Hollywood with Love: An Autobiography of Bessie Love. London: Elm Tree Books. p. 153. OCLC 734075937.
^ ^a ^b Madsen, Axel (1973). William Wyler: the Authorized Biography. New York: Crowell. pp. 59–60. ISBN 0-690-00083-9.
^ Bennett, Carl (August 19, 2009). "Progressive Silent Film List: Anybody Here Seen Kelly?". Silent Era.
^ Munden, Kenneth W., ed. (1971). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films 1921–1930. New York: R.R. Bowker Company. pp. 21–22. OCLC 664500075.
^ [https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3453/ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
^ Andersen, Arne. "Anybody Here Seen Kelly?". Lost Film Files for Universal Studios 1928.

External links

Anybody Here Seen Kelly? at IMDb
Synopsis at AllMovie
Anybody Here Seen Kelly? at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Anybody Here Seen Kelly? at the TCM Movie Database

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[1] Love, Bessie (1977). From Hollywood with Love: An Autobiography of Bessie Love. London: Elm Tree Books. p. 153. OCLC 734075937.

[wylerbio-2] Madsen, Axel (1973). William Wyler: the Authorized Biography. New York: Crowell. pp. 59–60. ISBN 0-690-00083-9.

[3] Bennett, Carl (August 19, 2009). "Progressive Silent Film List: Anybody Here Seen Kelly?". Silent Era.

[aficat-4] Munden, Kenneth W., ed. (1971). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films 1921–1930. New York: R.R. Bowker Company. pp. 21–22. OCLC 664500075.

[5] [https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3453/ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Anybody Here Seen Kelly?

[6] Andersen, Arne. "Anybody Here Seen Kelly?". Lost Film Files for Universal Studios 1928.

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