Desperate Youth

1921 film

Desperate Youth

Directed by| Harry B. Harris
Written by| Andrew Percival Younger
George C. Hull
Based on| A Kentucky Cinderella by F. Hopkinson Smith
Produced by| Carl Laemmle
Starring| Gladys Walton
J. Farrell MacDonald
Louis Willoughby
Cinematography| Earl M. Ellis

Production
company

Universal Pictures

Distributed by| Universal Pictures

Release date

| April 25, 1921

Running time

| 50 minutes
Country| United States
Languages| Silent
English intertitles

Desperate Youth is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Harry B. Harris and starring Gladys Walton, J. Farrell MacDonald and Louis Willoughby.[1]

## Cast[edit]

* Gladys Walton as Rosemary Merridew
* J. Farrell MacDonald as 'Mendocino' Bill
* Louis Willoughby as 'Alabam' Spencer Merridew / Henry Merridew
* Muriel Godfrey Turner as Mrs. Merridew
* Hazel Howell as Pauline Merridew
* Harold Miller as Dr. Tom Dowling
* Lucretia Harris as Aunt Chlordiny
* Jim Blackwell as Sam

## References[edit]

1. ^ Munden p.182

## Bibliography[edit]

* Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
* Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

## External links[edit]

* Desperate Youth at IMDb

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