Down to Earth

The Optimist

Directed by: John Emerson, USA, 1917

USA, 1917


Cast and Credits

Production Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation
Distribution Artcraft Pictures Corporation
Producer Douglas Fairbanks
Production Manager Douglas Fairbanks [General manager]
Director John Emerson
2nd Unit Regie Joseph Henabery
Scenario Anita Loos
Based on Homer Croy [Novel]
Director of Photography Victor Fleming
Camera Assistant Glen MacWilliams
Editor William Shea
Cast Douglas Fairbanks [Billy Gaynor]
Eileen Percy [Ethel Forsythe]
Gustav von Seyffertitz [Dr. Jollyem]
Charles McHugh [Dr. Samm]
Charles Girard [Charles Riddles - Ethel's Lover]
Charles Girard [Mr. Carter]
Ruth Allen [Mrs. Fuller Jermes]
Fred Goodwins [Jordan Jinny]
Florence Mayon [Mrs. Phattison Oiles]
Bull Montana [Wild Man]
David Porter [Mr. Coffin]
Herbert Standing [Mr. S.D. Dyspeptic]

Technical specifications
Category: Feature Film
Technical Details: Format: 35 mm, 1:1,33 - Ratio: 1:1,33 - Black and White,, 5000 feet, 5 reels
Sound System: silent
First Screening: August 16, 1917 in USA
US Copyright: August 09, 1917 - ©LP.11227
Survival Status: Prints of this picture exist [Archiv: Cineteca Del Friuli (Gemona), Det Danske Filminstitut (København), Museum of Modern Art (New York), George Eastman House (Rochester)]

General Information

Down to Earth is a motion picture produced in the year 1917 as a USA production. The Film was directed by John Emerson, with Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Charles McHugh, Charles Girard, in the leading parts. We have currently no synopsis of this picture on file; There are no reviews of Down to Earth available.

Bibliography - Exhibitor's Trade Review, 18 August 1917, pg 854.
- Motography, 1 September 1917, pg 475.
- The Motion Picture News, 18 August 1917, pg 1118.
- The Motion Picture News, 15 September 1917, pg 1745.
- The Moving Picture World, 25 August 1917, pg 1229.
- The Moving Picture World, 8 September 1917, pg 1584.
- The New York Dramatic Mirror, 18 August 1917, pg 18.
- Variety, 10 August 1917, pg 23.
- Wid's Film Daily, 16 August 1917 pp 520-21.

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