Why They Left Home Trailer

Why They Left Home Trailer (1917)

01 January 1917 Comedy 20 mins

Ira, who is employed at the oil station, falls in love with Flossie, wife of Jack, as they drive by. Ira later announces to his father that he is going to the city, and does. Mary, his ex-fiancée, learns he has gone to the city and consoles the father of Ira by announcing that she, too, is going to bring Ira home. In the city Ira meets Hank, a property man in a theater, who invites him to come with him behind the scenes. (Only 2 minutes survive. Held on 35mm in the Library of Congress).

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Cast

Zasu Pitts

as Mary Mandrake

Billy Franey

as Ira Dewberry

Crew

C.B. Hoadley

C.B. Hoadley Scenario Writer

International Releases Dates

United States 01 January 1917

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