Young Nowheres

Based onshort story Young Nowheres by Ida Alexa Ross Wylie in The Saturday Evening Post, c.1927StarringCinematographyErnest HallerEdited byRay CurtissDistributed byFirst National Pictures65 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Young Nowheres is a 1929 American drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Richard Barthelmess, Marian Nixon and Bert Roach.^[1] It was produced and released by First National Pictures with a Vitaphone soundtrack in both silent and sound versions.^[2]

Plot

Albert "Binky" Whalen operates an elevator in an apartment house. With his boss away for Christmas, he takes his girlfriend Annie to Coney Island, but she catches a severe cold. After taking her to the hospital, Binky moves her into his employer's temporarily vacant luxury apartment.^[2]

Cast

• Richard Barthelmess as Albert 'Binky' Whalen
• Marian Nixon as Annie Jackson
• Bert Roach as Mr. Jesse
• Anders Randolf as Cleaver
• Ray Turner as George
• Jocelyn Lee as Brunette
• Scott Seaton as Judge

Background

Ida Alexa Ross Wylie's short story of the same name was published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1927. Director Louis King read the story and bought the rights in order to adapt it for the screen. He approached Richard Barthelmess, who had played a similar role in Tol'able David (1921), for the lead role, but First National Pictures refused to lend Barthelmess for the project. Barthelmess acquired the story rights from King in early 1929 and persuaded First National to produce the film.^[3]

The story was again adapted in 1937's That Man's Here Again, directed by King.^[2]

Preservation status

The film's status is listed as unknown, suggesting that it may be lost.^[4]

See also

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

References

Bibliography

• Hans J. Wollstein. Strangers in Hollywood: the history of Scandinavian actors in American films from 1910 to World War II. Scarecrow Press, 1994.

External links

• Young Nowheres at IMDb
• synopsis at AllMovie