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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The Tragedy of Youth
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / [?] 6361 or 6273? feet
Directed by George Archainbaud

Cast: Patsy Ruth Miller [Paula Wayne], Warner Baxter [Frank Gordon], William Collier Jr. [Dick Wayne], Claire McDowell [mother], Harvey Clarke [father], Margaret Quimby [Diana], Billie Bennett [landlady], Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Perry) [porter]

Tiffany-Stahl Productions, Incorporated, production; distributed by [?] Tiffany-Stahl Productions, Incorporated? / Scenario by Olga Printzlau, from a screen story by Albert Shelby Le Vino. Set decoration by Burgess Beall. Cinematography by Faxon Dean. Film editor, Robert J. Kern. Intertitles written by Fanny Hatton and Frederick Hatton. / © 10 February 1928 by Tiffany-Stahl Productions, Incorporated [LP24973]. Released [?] 15 January or 1 March? 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama: Romance.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Death: Suicide - Infidelity - Marriages - Shipwrecks - Sports: Bowling: Bowling alleys

Listing updated: 1 December 2023.

References: Drew-Speaking pp. 152, 281 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.