A 1917 bromance about buying your friend's art anonymously — the original secret patron saint.
Hugh Eltinge, a struggling artist, and Mark Dunbar, a genius of the pen, whom the world has as yet failed to reward, live together in MacDougal Alley. Across the hall is Doris Golden, a reporter on the Evening Star, who enthuses over the work of both. Mark's novel is sold and Hugh and Doris see a new Mark. Mark begs Hugh to allow him to stake him until his pictures sell, but pleasure in his new clothes and new popularity dwindle as he sees his old friends will not profit by them. A happy idea strikes him and he buys all of Hugh's paintings on exhibition at a local dealer, requesting that his name be not mentioned.
Acting
Henry Hull's screen debut — decades before 'Lifeboat'.
Production
Actual MacDougal Alley location — documentary value.
Director
Harley Knoles
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Henry Hull would become a horror icon 23 years later as the werewolf in 'The Werewolf of London' (1935), making this his humble origin story.
MacDougal Alley was real — this captures 1917 Greenwich Village when artists actually lived there, before it became a postcard.
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