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The King On Main Street is a american film of genre Drama directed by Monta Bell released in USA on 24 october 1925 with Bessie Love
The King On Main Street (1925)
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Add to a movie listThe King on Main Street is a 1925 silent film romantic comedy directed by Monta Bell, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Adolphe Menjou and Bessie Love. Carlotta Monterey, later wife of Eugene O'Neill from 1929 to 1953, has a small role as Mrs. Nash.
Director Bell included sequences filmed in early two-strip Technicolor, and these sequences survive with the film today.
Synopsis
A European king (Menjou) comes to a small American town, and falls in love with one of its residents (Love).Actors
Bessie Love
(Mary Young)
Adolphe Menjou
(The King)
Greta Nissen
(Therese)
Joseph Kilgour
(Arthur Trent)
Marcia Harris
(Aunt Tabitha Young)
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