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209:, in the first story a suburban wife (Taylor) has married a wealthy man (Locke) in the belief that her first husband (McDermott), a cad, had been killed. While the second husband is away, her first husband appears and demands money for his silence. A struggle ensues after a burglar (Southern) enters the home to rob it, and the burglar shoots the first husband. The wife, hearing her second husband arriving in his car, takes the revolver in her hand as the burglar escapes, telling her second husband that she shot a burglar (the body of her first husband). The second episode is a recital of the 38: 1014: 260:
According to author Aubrey Solomon, this film was Fox's biggest moneymaker for the year 1920 with a profit of $ 192,000. While this would seem to conflict with the enormous success of Fox's
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with the vamp (Taylor), the man (McDermott), and his friend (Southern), and includes a scene depicting the Frolic at
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like many other Fox Film productions from this period, a copy of this movie is now in the collection of the
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While New York Sleeps (1938 film)

Charles Brabin
Charles Brabin
Fox Film
Fox Film Corporation
reels
Silent
intertitles
Fox Film Corporation
Charles Brabin
Theda Bara
Estelle Taylor
Marc McDermott
lost film
UCLA Film and Television Archive
film magazine
badger game
Ziegfeld Follies
Lower East Side
Estelle Taylor
Marc McDermott
Earl Metcalfe
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
Progressive Silent Film List: While New York Sleeps
"An Innovation Is Promised in While New York Sleeps: Big Special to Be Issued in September - Night Life in Metropolis Is Depicted in Picture Directed by Brabin"
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