Bread (1918 film) explained

Bread
Director:	Ida May Park
Starring:	Mary MacLaren Edward Cecil Kenneth Harlan
Cinematography:	King D. Gray
Studio:	Universal Pictures
Distributor:	Universal Pictures
Runtime:	60 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent English intertitles

Bread is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Ida May Park and starring Mary MacLaren, Edward Cecil and Kenneth Harlan.^[1]

Though only a partial print is known to survive,^[2] in 2020 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".^[3]

Cast

• Mary MacLaren as Candace Newby
• Kenneth Harlan as Dick Frothingham
• Edward Cecil as Arnold Train
• Gladys Fox as Estelle Payne
• Louis Morrison as Emil Krause

Bibliography

• Donna Kornhaber. Silent Film: a Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Notes and References

1. Kornhaber p.69
2. Web site: 2021-04-29 . Park vs. Prominence: How Bread (1918) Speaks for Women of the Silent Era . 2024-08-23 . Screen Culture . en-US.
3. Web site: Complete National Film Registry Listing . 2021-01-30. Library of Congress.