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Boys Will Be Boys
(1921) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4300 feet
Directed by Clarence G. Badger

Cast: Will Rogers [Peep O’ Day], Irene Rich [Lucy], C.E. Mason [Tom Minor], Sydney Ainsworth [Sublette], Edward Kimball [Judge Priest], H. Milton Ross [Bagby], C.E. Thurston (Charles Thurston) [Sheriff Breck], May Hopkins [Kitty], Cordelia Callahan [Mrs. Hunter], Nick Cogley [Aunt Mandy], Burton Halbert [Farmer Bell]

Goldwyn Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Goldwyn Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Edfrid A. Bingham, from the play Boys Will Be Boys by Irvin S. Cobb and Charles O’Brien Kennedy. Cinematography by Marcel Le Picard. / © 27 January 1921 by Goldwyn Pictures Corporation [LP16077]. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently made as Judge Priest (1934).

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: African-Americans - Blackface - USA: Kentucky

Listing updated: 20 July 2009.

References: Null-Black p. 19; Weaver-Twenty p. 309 : ClasIm-204 p. 42 : Website-AFI.