The Five Dollar Baby

The Five Dollar Baby
Directed by	Harry Beaumont
Written by	Irvin S. Cobb Rex Taylor
Produced by	Harry Beaumont
Starring	Viola Dana Ralph Lewis Otto Hoffman
Cinematography	John Arnold
Production company	Metro Pictures
Distributed by	Metro Pictures
Release date	June 25, 1922 (1922-06-25)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

The Five Dollar Baby is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Viola Dana, Ralph Lewis and Otto Hoffman.^[1] A family hock their baby to a pawnbroker for five dollars.

Plot

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Cast

Viola Dana as Ruth
Ralph Lewis as Ben Shapinsky
Otto Hoffman as The Solitary Kid
John Harron as Larry Donovan
Tom McGuire as Mr. Donovan
Arthur Rankin as Bernie Riskin
Marjorie Maurice as Esther Block
Ernest Pasque as Isadore

References

^ Munden p.249

Bibliography

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

The Five Dollar Baby at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Harry Beaumont
1910s	The Truant Soul (1916) Burning the Candle (1917) Filling His Own Shoes (1917) Skinner's Dress Suit (1917) Skinner's Bubble (1917) Skinner's Baby (1917) Thirty a Week (1918) Brown of Harvard (1918) Go West, Young Man (1918) A Man and His Money (1919) Heartsease (1919) One of the Finest (1919) Lord and Lady Algy (1919) The Gay Lord Quex (1919) The City of Comrades (1919) The Little Rowdy (1919) Toby's Bow (1919) A Wild Goose Chase (1919)
1920s	Going Some (1920) Dollars and Sense (1920) The Great Accident (1920) Officer 666 (1920) Stop Thief! (1920) June Madness (1922) Lights of the Desert (1922) Seeing's Believing (1922) Glass Houses (1922) The Five Dollar Baby (1922) They Like 'Em Rough (1922) Love in the Dark (1922) Very Truly Yours (1922) The Ragged Heiress (1922) The Gold Diggers (1923) Main Street (1923) A Noise in Newboro (1923) Crinoline and Romance (1923) Babbitt (1924) Don't Doubt Your Husband (1924) Beau Brummel (1924) The Lover of Camille (1924) A Lost Lady (1924) Recompense (1925) His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1925) Womanpower (1926) Sandy (1926) One Increasing Purpose (1927) Forbidden Hours (1928) Our Dancing Daughters (1928) A Single Man (1929) The Broadway Melody (1929) Speedway (1929)
1930s	Great Day (1930) Lord Byron of Broadway (1930) Children of Pleasure (1930) The Florodora Girl (1930) Those Three French Girls (1930) The Great Lover (1931) Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) Laughing Sinners (1931) West of Broadway (1931) Are You Listening (1932) Unashamed (1932) Faithless (1932) Made on Broadway (1933) When Ladies Meet (1933) Should Ladies Behave (1933) Murder in the Private Car (1934) Enchanted April (1935) The Girl on the Front Page (1936) When's Your Birthday? (1937)
1940s	Maisie Goes to Reno (1944) Twice Blessed (1945) Up Goes Maisie (1946) The Show-Off (1946) Undercover Maisie (1947) Alias a Gentleman (1948)

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