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The King On Main Street is a american film of genre Drama directed by Monta Bell released in USA on 24 october 1925 with Bessie Love

The King On Main Street (1925)

The King On Main Street
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Released in USA 24 october 1925
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Romance
Rating65% 3.2974953.2974953.2974953.2974953.297495

The King on Main Street is a 1925 silent film romantic comedy directed by Monta Bell, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Adolphe Menjou and Bessie Love. Carlotta Monterey, later wife of Eugene O'Neill from 1929 to 1953, has a small role as Mrs. Nash.

Director Bell included sequences filmed in early two-strip Technicolor, and these sequences survive with the film today.

Synopsis

A European king (Menjou) comes to a small American town, and falls in love with one of its residents (Love).

Actors

Bessie Love

(Mary Young)
Adolphe Menjou

(The King)
Greta Nissen

(Therese)
Joseph Kilgour

(Arthur Trent)
Marcia Harris

(Aunt Tabitha Young)
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