Why Smith Left Home is a 1919 American silent film farce directed by Donald Crisp and starring Bryant Washburn. Famous Players–Lasky produced the film with distribution through Paramount Pictures.The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Why Smith Left Home This film is based on the turn of the century play, Why Smith Left Home, by George Broadhurst.Why Smith Left Home on Broadway as a play, 1899 and 1900; IBDb.com The play starred Maclyn Arbuckle in the Washburn role.
An incomplete copy of Why Smith Left Home is held at the Library of Congress.Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 208, c.1978 by The American Film InstituteThe Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Why Smith Left Home
Cast Bryant Washburn as John Brown Smith Lois Wilson as Marian Mayme Kelso as Aunt Mary Winter Hall as The General Walter Hiers as Bob White Margaret Loomis as Julie Carrie Clark Ward as Lavina
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