Jane (1915 film) explained

Jane
Director:	Frank Lloyd
Producer:	Oliver Morosco
Starring:	Charlotte Greenwood Sydney Grant
Music:	George W. Beynon
Distributor:	Paramount Pictures
Runtime:	5 reels
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent film(English intertitles)

Jane is a 1915 American silent film produced by the Oliver Morosco company and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on a stage play Jane by W.H. Lestocq and Harry Nicholls. Frank Lloyd directed, early in his career, and up-and-coming stage comic Charlotte Greenwood debuts and stars in her first motion picture. This was Lloyd's second directed feature film after several years of making shorts. This film survives in the Library of Congress.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Cast

• Charlotte Greenwood - Jane
• Sydney Grant - William Tipson
• Myrtle Stedman - Lucy Norton
• Forrest Stanley - Charles Shackleton
• Howard Davies - Colonel Norton
• Herbert Standing - Andrew Kershaw
• Lydia Yeamans Titus - Mrs. Chadwick
• Syd de Grey - Henry Jardine

External links

• Jane at IMDb.com
• still or lantern portrait
• larger version of production still
• Paramount ad cover

Notes and References

1. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/J/Jane1915.html Jane at silentera.com database
2. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films:1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988
3. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1956/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog
4. Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p.92 c.1978 by the American Film Institute