A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Break the News to Mother
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Julius Stegner

Cast: Pearl Shepard [Ruth Godwin], Gertrude Berkeley [Mrs. Bray], Raymond Bloomer [Dave Bray], Alice Gerard [Edna Holmes], Forrest Robinson [Pop Henkel], William Bailey (William Norton Bailey) [Warren Flint], Louis Stern [Howard Godwin], Joseph Smiley (Joseph W. Smiley) [Chief of Police Donovan], Chester Barnett [Doctor Sims], [?] Marion Birk?, [?] Franklyn Hanna?

International Film Service Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Select Pictures Corporation. / Produced by B.S. Moss. Based on the song “Break the News to Mother” by Charles K. Harris. Cinematography by André Barlatier. Presented by Select Pictures Corporation. / © 5 May 1919 by Select Pictures Corporation [LP13679]. Released 8 June 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 14 July 2023.

References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.