Our Mrs. McChesney is a lost 1918 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by Metro Pictures, directed by Ralph Ince, and based on the 1915 play by Edna Ferber and George V. Hobart starring Ethel Barrymore.
Barrymore reprised her role from the popular play, as did her fellow cast members Huntley Gordon and William H. St. James. Wilfred Lytell was a brother of Bert Lytell and Lucille Lee Stewart was a sister of Anita Stewart.The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20, The American Film Institute, c. 1988 Ince was married to Lucille Lee Stewart.
Plot As described in a film magazine, Emma McChesney (Barrymore), saleswoman for T. A. Buck & Co., plans to give up the "road" and settle down with her boy Jack (Lytell). She discovers that Jack has married a chorus girl while at college and also raised a check that she had sent him. Determined to make a man of him, she secures a position for him at T. A. Buck & Co. and sends the daughter-in-law to a boarding school. She designs a new skirt for the company that finds favor at a fashion show when modeled by Jack's wife, and saves the company from bankruptcy.
Cast Ethel Barrymore as Emma McChesney Huntley Gordon as T.A. Buck Jr. Wilfred Lytell as Jack McChesney Lucille Lee Stewart as Vera Sherwood John Daly Murphy as Abel Fromkin Walter Percival as "Beauty" Blair William H. St. James as "Fat" Ed Myers Ricca Allen as Hattie Stitch George S. Trimble as Joe Greenbaum Sammy Cooper as Izzy Greenbaum (*Samuel Colt; son of Ethel Barrymore) Fred Walters as Sam Harrison
See also List of lost films Ethel Barrymore on stage, screen and radio
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External links
Our Mrs. McChesney at SilentEra Period advertisement to the film Sequences from the film: photo #1 (still incorrectly listed as The Beloved Rogue), photo #2 lantern slide