A 1924 lost film about America's favorite phony — capitalism's original midlife-crisis man.
Acting
Willard Louis embodying Sinclair Lewis's smug everyman.
Production
A 1924 time capsule of American boosterism, now mostly dust.
Writing
Adapting Lewis's satire before the Hays Code defanged Hollywood.
Director
Harry Beaumont
Willard Louis
George F. Babbitt
Mary Alden
Mrs. Myra Babbitt
Carmel Myers
Tanis Judique
Raymond McKee
Theodore Roosevelt Babbitt
Maxine Elliott Hicks
Verona Babbitt
Cissy Fitzgerald
Mrs. Zilla Reisling
Gertrude Olmstead
Eunice Littlefield
Lucien Littlefield
Edward Littlefield
Dale Fuller
Tillie
Kathleen Myers
Miss McGoun
Michael Dark
Chum Frink
Charles McHugh
Virgil Gunch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is a LOST FILM. No complete prints are known to survive, though fragments may exist in private collections.
Sinclair Lewis refused to attend the premiere, already convinced Hollywood would butcher his Pulitzer-winning novel. He was... not wrong to worry.
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