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Quality Street

Director: Sidney Franklin (Dir)
Release Date:   31 Dec 1927
Premiere Information:   New York premiere: 2 Nov 1927
Duration (in feet):   7,193
Duration (in reels):   8

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Cast:	Marion Davies	(Phoebe Throssel)
	Conrad Nagel	(Dr. Valentine Brown)
	Helen Jerome Eddy	(Susan Throssel)
	Flora Finch	(Mary Willoughby)
	Margaret Seddon	(Nancy Willoughby)
	Marcelle Corday	(Henrietta Turnbull)
	Kate Price	(Patty)

Summary:

The prolonged courtship of Phoebe Throssel with Dr. Valentine Brown is abruptly interrupted by the doctor's decision to join the English forces in the Napoleonic Wars. Meanwhile, Phoebe languishes in Green Willow Village, comforted by her sister, Susan; but with the passing of years, she develops into spinsterhood. When Dr. Brown returns after 10 years, Phoebe believes he will be disappointed at her aged appearance and transforms herself into a mythical niece and starts a flirtation with the doctor; finding herself in a number of embarrassing situations, she reverts to her former person to find that he loves her in spite of the changes wrought by time.

Production Company:	Cosmopolitan Productions
Distribution Company:	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.
Director:	Sidney Franklin	(Dir)
Writer:	Hans Kraly	(Scen)
	Albert Lewin	(Scen)
	Hans Kraly	(Adpt)
	Albert Lewin	(Adpt)
	Marian Ainslee	(Titles)
	Ruth Cummings	(Titles)
Photography:	Hendrik Sartov	(Dir of photog)
Film Editor:	Ben Lewis	(Film ed)
Set Decoration:	Cedric Gibbons	(Settings)
	Allen Ruoff	(Settings)
Costumes:	René Hubert	(Ward)
Country:	United States
Language:	English

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Songs:
Source Text:	Based on the play Quality Street by James M. Barrie (New York, 11 Nov 1901).
Authors:	James M. Barrie

Copyright Claimant	Copyright Date	Copyright Number
Cosmopolitan Productions	17/10/1927 dd/mm/yyyy	LP24506

Physical Properties:	b&w:
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Genre:	Comedy-drama

Subjects (Major):	Courtship
	England
	Impersonation and imposture
	Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1814
	Physicians
	Spinsters

Note:

Bibliographic Sources:	Date	Page
Film Daily	13 Nov 1927	p. 8.
Moving Picture World	12 Nov 1927	p. 26.
New York Times	2 Nov 1927	p. 24.
Variety	9 Nov 1927	p. 20.

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