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The Meanest Man in the World
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5600 feet
Directed by Edward F. Cline

Cast: Bert Lytell [Richard Clark], Blanche Sweet [Jane Hudson], Bryant Washburn [Ned Stevens], Maryon Aye [Nellie Clarke], Lincoln Stedman [Bart Nash, the office boy], Helen Lynch [Kitty Crockett, the stenographer], Ward Crane [Carleton Childs], Frances Raymond [Mrs. Clarke], Carl Stockdale [Hiram Leeds], Tom Murray [Andy Oatman], Forrest Robinson [Michael O’Brien], Robert Dunbar [Franklin Fielding], Victor Potel [Lute Boon], William Conklin [Frederick Leggett]

Principal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Associated First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Austin McHugh, from the play The Meanest Man in the World by George M. Cohan and Everett S. Ruskay. / © 22 October 1923 by Principal Pictures Corporation [LP19519]. Released 22 October 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 26 September 2011.

References: Drew-Speaking p. 230, 231, 287 : Website-AFI.