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The Dawn of a Tomorrow is a american film of genre Drama directed by George Melford with Jacqueline Logan

The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1924)

The Dawn of a Tomorrow
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OriginUSA
Genres Drama
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The Dawn of a Tomorrow is a 1924 silent film drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It is based on the 1906 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett and stars Jacqueline Logan. George Melford directed the story which had been filmed before in 1915 also titled The Dawn of a Tomorrow with Mary Pickford. A play version had been produced on Broadway in 1909 which served as the final starring stage role for Eleanor Robson Belmont. The film today is lost.

Actors

Jacqueline Logan

(Glad)David Torrence

(Sir Oliver Holt)Raymond Griffith

(the dandy)Guy Oliver

(Black)Tempe Pigott

(Ginney)
And :
Mabel Van Buren
Marguerite Clayton
Alma Bennett
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