A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Spotlight
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4866 feet
Directed by Frank Tuttle

Cast: Esther Ralston [Lizzie Stokes, also known as Olga Rostova], Neil Hamilton [Norman Brooke], Nicholas Soussanin [Daniel Hoffman], Arlette Marchal [Maggie Courtney], Arthur Housman [Ebbetts]

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Hope Loring, from the short story “Footlights” by Rita Weiman. Cinematography by Victor Milner. Film editor, Louis D. Lighton. Intertitles written by Herman Mankiewicz (Herman J. Mankiewicz). Presented by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky. / © 19 November 1927 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP24674]. Released 19 November 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama: Romance.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 4 December 2023.

References: Drew-Speaking pp. 188, 284 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.