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Why Smith Left Home is a american film directed by Donald Crisp with Bryant Washburn

Why Smith Left Home (1919)

Why Smith Left Home
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Why Smith Left Home is a 1919 American silent film farce directed by Donald Crisp and starring Bryant Washburn. Famous Players-Lasky produced with distribution through Paramount Pictures. This film is based on the turn of the century play, Why Smith Left Home, by George Broadhurst. The play starred Maclyn Arbuckle in the Washburn role.

An incomplete copy is held at the Library of Congress.

Actors

Bryant Washburn

(John Brown Smith)Lois Wilson

(Marian)Mayme Kelso

(Aunt Mary)Winter Hall

(The General)Walter Hiers

(Bob White)Carrie Clark Ward

(Lavina)
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