Young Nowheres

Young Nowheres is a 1929 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon and Bert Roach.[1] It was produced and released by First National Pictures with a Vitaphone soundtrack in both silent and sound versions.[2]

Young Nowheres
Directed byFrank Lloyd
Written by
Based onshort story Young Nowheres by Ida Alexa Ross Wylie in The Saturday Evening Post, c.1927
Starring
CinematographyErnest Haller
Edited byRay Curtiss
Production
company
Distributed byFirst National Pictures
Release date
October 20, 1929
Running time
65 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Albert "Binky" Whalen operates an elevator in an apartment house. With his boss away for Christmas, he takes his girlfriend Annie to Coney Island, but she catches a severe cold. After taking her to the hospital, Binky moves her into his employer's temporarily vacant luxury apartment.[2]

Cast

Background

Ida Alexa Ross Wylie's short story of the same name was published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1927. Director Louis King read the story and bought the rights in order to adapt it for the screen. He approached Richard Barthelmess, who had played a similar role in Tol'able David (1921), for the lead role, but First National Pictures refused to lend Barthelmess for the project. Barthelmess acquired the story rights from King in early 1929 and persuaded First National to produce the film.[3]

The story was again adapted in 1937's That Man's Here Again, directed by King.[2]

Preservation status

The film's status is listed as unknown, suggesting that it may be lost.[4]

See also

References
  1. Wollstein p.339
  2. ..Young Nowheres, afi.com; accessed June 22, 2017.
  3. "Young Nowheres". The New York Times. October 27, 1929. pp. 8X.
  4. Young Nowheres at silentera.com

Bibliography
  • Hans J. Wollstein. Strangers in Hollywood: the history of Scandinavian actors in American films from 1910 to World War II. Scarecrow Press, 1994.


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