Best Films - 1920
by Andre Soares
Though no masterpiece, The Mollycoddle is a surprisingly enjoyable romp starring Douglas Fairbanks as an effete, upper-class nonentity who discovers both his manhood and his red-white-and-blue Americanness before the final fadeout. His leading lady is Ruth Renick, but one barely notices her. The director is Victor Fleming (Red Dust, Gone with the Wind), but the film is all Fairbanks’s.
FILM
The Last of the Mohicans
The Mollycoddle
What Happened to Rosa?
DIRECTOR
George Archainbaud (The Wonderful Chance)
Victor Fleming (The Mollycoddle)
Victor Schertzinger (What Happened to Rosa?)
Maurice Tourneur & Clarence Brown (The Last of the Mohicans)
ACTOR
Douglas Fairbanks (The Mollycoddle)
Thomas Meighan (Conrad in Quest of His Youth)
Thomas Meighan (Why Change Your Wife?)
ACTRESS
Barbara Bedford (The Last of the Mohicans)
Bebe Daniels (Why Change Your Wife?)
Mabel Normand (What Happened to Rosa?)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Richard Barthelmess (Way Down East)
Lon Chaney (Outside the Law)
SCREENPLAY
Robert Dillon (The Last of the Mohicans)
Mary Murillo & Melville Hammett (The Wonderful Chance)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
G. W. Bitzer (The Love Flower)
G. W. Bitzer, Charles Downs & Hendrik Sartov (Way Down East)
Philip DuBois & Charles Van Enger (The Last of the Mohicans)
Charles Rosher (Pollyanna)
L. Guy Wilky (Conrad in Quest of His Youth)
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