Lombardi, Ltd.

Lombardi, Ltd.

Still from film with Alice Lake and Bert Lytell
Directed by Jack Conway
Written by Fanny Hatton (play)
Frederic Hatton (play)
June Mathis (scenario)
Starring Bert Lytell
Alice Lake
Vera Lewis
Juanita Hansen
Jean Acker
Joseph Kilgour
Ann May
Cinematography Robert Kurrle
Distributed by Metro Pictures
Release dates
 October 1919
Running time
 7 reels
Country United States
Language Silent film
(English intertitles)

Lombardi, Ltd. (also sometimes styled Lombardi Limited in publicity materials) is a surviving 1919 American feature silent film. It was adapted by June Mathis from a 1917 play of the same name by Frederick and Fanny Hatton, and directed by Jack Conway. It is not known whether the film currently survives.[1] Warner Baxter had an early uncredited minor role in the film.

Plot

Tito Lombardi struggles Fifth Avenue couture house is spiraling into financial afloat. Through a Broadway investor he meets and falls for a showgirl who soon proves to be a gold-digger; his attractive but plain female assistant Norah loves him but has never made her feelings known. With money from a third-party inheritance and some ingenuity by Norah, the House of Lombardi is resurrected. Lombardi and Norah find true love together.

Preservation status

References

  1. ↑ "Progressive Silent Film List: Lombardi, Limited". Silent Era. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
  2. ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..Lombardi, Ltd.
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