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Fame Street
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1932
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Synopsis: Aging has-been silent star Henry B. Walthall plays an aging has-been silent star in this low-budget drama from Monogram Pictures. D.W. Griffith's erstwhile "Little Colonel" is Nathaniel Barry, a once admired actor now facing a magistrate (Edmund Breese) on a charge of drunken disorder. Barry's young son Junior (Leon Barry) steps in and convinces the judge that Nat has a job waiting for him. But the old actor's fondness for the bottle once again makes him unemployable and he is soon reduced to playing ... Full Synopsis
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Henry B. Walthall cuts himself a sizable slice of ham in this old-fashioned tearjerker courtesy of director Louis King, who completely fails to reign him in. Young Leon Janney is not far behind, though, and the best performances are offered by Aileen Pringle, as the old actor's erstwhile colleague and lover, and Lionel Belmore, the latter giving a sly impersonation of Universal studio owner Carl Laemmle. ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Junior Barry
Diana McCormick
Henry Field
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