Main Street is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the 1920 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Harry Beaumont. A Broadway play version of the novel was produced in 1921.Main Street as produced on Broadway at the National Theatre October 5, 1921 to December 1921; IBDb.com It was the first film to be released after the foundation of Warner Bros. Pictures on April 4, 1923.
Plot As described in a film magazine review, a young city woman with advanced ideas marries a small town doctor, and go to live in a backwoods burg. Her irritation at the small talk and petty incidents which make up the lives of the townspeople finally culminate in her leaving home and going to work as a government clerk in Washington, D.C. After a time her husband follows her there and there is a reunion.
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Box office According to Warner Bros. records, the film earned $510,000 domestically and $46,000 foreign.
Preservation status Main Street is a lost film.Progressive Silent Film List: Main Street at silentera.com Main Street at American Silent Feature Film Survival Database 1957 Movies from AAP Warner Bros Features & Cartoons Sales Book Directed at TV Warner Bros. records of the film's negative have a notation, "Junked 12/27/48" (i.e., December 27, 1948). Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to the nitrate decomposition of its pre-1933 films.
See also I Married a Doctor, 1936 film adaptation of Main Street
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Lantern slide (Wayback Machine) Lobby poster (Wayback Machine) Series of photos (archived)