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Blackbirds is a american film of genre Drama directed by J. P. McGowan released in USA on 14 october 1915 with Laura Hope Crews

Blackbirds (1915)

Blackbirds
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Released in USA 14 october 1915
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OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime

Blackbirds is an extant 1915 American silent film drama produced by Jesse Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The film marks an early starring screen appearance by actress Laura Hope Crews in this her second motion picture. The film is based on a 1913 Broadway play, Blackbirds, by Harry James Smith which also starred Miss Crews. This is a surviving film at the Library of Congress.

It was remade in a 1920 film of the same name starring Justine Johnstone.

Actors

Laura Hope Crews

(Leonie Sobatsky)Thomas Meighan

(Jack Doggins / Hon. Nevil Trask)George Gebhardt

(Bechel)Raymond Hatton

(Hawke, Jr.)Jane Wolfe

(Countess Maroff (as Jane Wolf))
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