His Rise to Fame explained

His Rise to Fame
Cinematography:	Marcel Le Picard
Studio:	Excellent Pictures
Distributor:	Excellent Pictures
Runtime:	60 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

His Rise to Fame is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Bernard McEveety and starring George Walsh, Peggy Shaw, and Bradley Barker.^[1]

Plot

A drifter meets a dancer in a cabaret and reforms his life, becoming a championship-winning boxer.

Cast

• George Walsh as Jerry Drake
• Peggy Shaw as Laura White
• Bradley Barker as Hubert Strief
• Mildred Reardon as Helen Lee
• Martha Petelle as 'Ma' Drake
• William Nally as Montana Mack
• Ivan Linow as Bull Vickers

Preserrvation

With no prints of His Rise to Fame located in any film archives,^[2] it is a lost film.

Bibliography

• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

Notes and References

1. Munden p. 355
2. https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6205/ Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: His Rise to Fame