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The Cave Man is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Lewis Milestone released in USA on 6 february 1926 with Matt Moore
The Cave Man (1926)
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Add to a movie listThe Caveman, also styled as The Cave Man, is a 1926 silent film comedy produced and distributed by Warner Bros.. Lewis Milestone directed the Darryl Zanuck scripted story taken from the play The Cave Man by Gelett Burgess. Matt Moore, Marie Prevost, Hedda Hopper star. A small role is played by a young Myrna Loy, just starting out in her long career. This picture survives in the Library of Congress with a reel missing.
Vitagraph, a predecessor of Warner Brothers, produced a version of this story in 1915 with Robert Edeson.
Actors
Matt Moore
(Mike Smagg)
Marie Prevost
(Myra Gaylord)
Phyllis Haver
(Dolly Van Dream)
Hedda Hopper
(Mrs. Van Dream)
Myrna Loy
(Maid)
Virginia Fox
(Party Girl (uncredited))
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