Six Cylinder Love
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Six Cylinder Love is a 1923
1923 in film
-Events:*April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1923:U.S.A...

 silent film comedy produced and distributed by Fox Film and directed by Elmer Clifton
Elmer Clifton
Elmer Clifton, was an American writer, director, and actor from the early silent days. A collaborator of D. W. Griffith, he appeared in The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance before giving up acting in 1919 to concentrate on work behind the camera...

. It is based on a popular 1921 Broadway play and stars Ernest Truex
Ernest Truex
Ernest Truex was an American actor of stage and film.-Career:...

 from the play. Also appearing in the film from the Broadway play were Donald Meek
Donald Meek
Donald Meek was a Scottish-born American character actor. He first worked as a stage actor and later became a film actor, starring in several movies including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Little Miss Broadway, and State Fair. Before becoming an actor, he fought in the Spanish-American War and...

 and Ralph Sipperly
Ralph Sipperly
Ralph Wilson Sipperly was a comic and character actor who appeared in ten films between 1923 and 1927. His most notable portrayal was as the barber in the Academy Award winning film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans ....

. Both Hedda Hopper
Hedda Hopper
Hedda Hopper was an American actress and gossip columnist, whose long-running feud with friend turned arch-rival Louella Parsons became at least as notorious as many of Hopper's columns.-Early life:...

 and June Walker
June Walker
June Walker was an American stage and film actress. She appeared on Broadway in such plays as Green Grow the Lilacs, The Farmer Takes a Wife, and Twelfth Night...

 had substantial roles in the long running play but didn't appear in the film. Walker's part was played by ingenue Florence Eldridge
Florence Eldridge
Florence Eldridge was an American actress.-Personal life:...

 in her very first film. Also making their film debuts are Donald Meek
Donald Meek
Donald Meek was a Scottish-born American character actor. He first worked as a stage actor and later became a film actor, starring in several movies including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Little Miss Broadway, and State Fair. Before becoming an actor, he fought in the Spanish-American War and...

 and Thomas Mitchell
Thomas Mitchell (actor)
Thomas Mitchell was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of Gerald O'Hara, the father of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, the drunken Doc Boone in John Ford's Stagecoach, and Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life...

. In 1931 Fox produced an early sound remake starring newcomer Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American theatrical and film actor, who appeared in 75 films from 1930 to 1967. Tracy was one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, ranking among the top ten box office draws for almost every year from 1938 to 1951...

. As 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

 the studio remade the story over again in 1939 as The Honeymoon's Over.

Cast

  • Ernest Truex
    Ernest Truex
    Ernest Truex was an American actor of stage and film.-Career:...

     - Gilbert Sterling
  • Florence Eldridge
    Florence Eldridge
    Florence Eldridge was an American actress.-Personal life:...

     - Marilyn Sterling
  • Donald Meek
    Donald Meek
    Donald Meek was a Scottish-born American character actor. He first worked as a stage actor and later became a film actor, starring in several movies including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Little Miss Broadway, and State Fair. Before becoming an actor, he fought in the Spanish-American War and...

     - Richard Burton
  • Maude Hill - Geraldine Burton
  • Ann McKittrick - Phyllis Burton
  • Marjorie Milton - Marguerite Rogers
  • Thomas Mitchell
    Thomas Mitchell (actor)
    Thomas Mitchell was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. Among his most famous roles in a long career are those of Gerald O'Hara, the father of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, the drunken Doc Boone in John Ford's Stagecoach, and Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life...

     - Bertram Rogers
  • Ralph Sipperly
    Ralph Sipperly
    Ralph Wilson Sipperly was a comic and character actor who appeared in ten films between 1923 and 1927. His most notable portrayal was as the barber in the Academy Award winning film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans ....

     - William Donroy
  • Berton Churchill
    Berton Churchill
    Berton Churchill was a Canadian actor.Born in Toronto, Ontario. As a young man interested in the theater, he appeared in stock companies as early as 1903 and later headed to New York City where he began an acting career that soon put him on the Broadway stage...

     - George Stapleton
  • Harold Mann - Harold Winston
  • Frank Tweed - Tom Johnson
  • Grace Gordon - Mary


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  • Helen Morgan
    Helen Morgan
    Helen Morgan was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s...

    - extra


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