Who Cares is a 1925 silent film produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures and starring Dorothy Devore. It is preserved in the Library of Congress's collection. It is based upon a novel by Cosmo Hamilton which had been previously filmed in 1919 as Who Cares?
Real life husband and wife, actors Vera and Ralph Lewis, play grandparents.
, 1h25 Directed byJack Conway OriginUSA GenresDrama, Romance ThemesSports films, American football films, Films based on plays ActorsWilliam Haines, Jack Pickford, Mary Brian, Francis X. Bushman, Jr., Mary Alden, Robert Livingston Rating61% Harvard University student Tom Brown (William Haines) is a handsome, athletic, and carefree young man who has a reputation as a Don Juan among the ladies. Although he is popular on campus, he finds himself at odds with Bob McAndrew (Ralph Bushman), a studious, reserved boy who becomes his chief rival for the affections of beautiful Mary Abbott (Mary Brian), a professor's daughter. Tom rooms with Jim Doolittle (Jack Pickford), an awkward weakling but goodhearted backwoods youth who idolizes him. The brash and cocky Brown easily wins over his dormitory mates, but refuses to let them ostracize Jim.
Lovey Mary (Love) is a runaway from an orphanage who takes a little companion and finds a home with poor and kind Mrs. Wiggs (Mary Alden). As a plus, the cheerful young girl also meets Mrs. Wiggs eldest son, Billy (William Haines).
Mike (Sally O'Neil) is a boy of the railroads, living with his Father (Charles Murray) in a converted freight car, in love with telegraphist Harlan (William Haines).