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Billy McGrath's Art Career

Billy McGrath's Art Career

1912Short
ComedyShort

This time Billy attends an art exhibit of the new French "impressionistic" style. In company with his fiancée, Catherine Van Zandt, and her mother. Billy is introduced to the artist, Lecomte, but insults the dauber greatly at his ...

Director
N/A
Writers
N/A
Stars
John Steppling, Dolores Cassinelli, Eleanor Blanchard
Release Date
November 21, 1912
Language
None, English
Country
United States
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Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

John Steppling
John Steppling
as Billy McGrath
Dolores Cassinelli
Dolores Cassinelli
as Catherine Van Zandt
Eleanor Blanchard
Eleanor Blanchard
as Catherine's Mother
E.H. Calvert
E.H. Calvert
as Lecomte - the Artist
Augustus Carney
Augustus Carney
as An Art Connoisseur
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Charles Hitchcock
as The Butler
Ruth Stonehouse
Ruth Stonehouse
as Ruth Radcliffe

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Production
The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company

🏷️ Keywords

character name in title

🎯 Categories

ComedyShort

⭐ Featured Review

This one kept a smile warm all through
by deickemeyer2017-03-18

"Pictures dealing with studio life and with artists and their adventures have a big advantage over pictures of fugitives from justice, of unconvincing, impossible love stories and melodramas. And when, as in this case, they are good comedies with a tangible amount of real human experience, albeit exaggerated for the sake of fun, they can be depended upon to furnish amusement. This one kept a smile warm all through and now and then made a good hearty laugh. The audience liked it. Billy McGrath (John Steppling) is a society man who gets squelched by an impressionist (E.H. Calvert) for not knowing..."

📖 Synopsis

This time Billy attends an art exhibit of the new French "impressionistic" style. In company with his fiancée, Catherine Van Zandt, and her mother. Billy is introduced to the artist, Lecomte, but insults the dauber greatly at his ...