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Common Property

1919 silent film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ105227678 ↗
Source-derived summary

Common Property is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by William C. Dowlan and Paul Powell and starring Robert Anderson, Nell Craig and Colleen Moore.

Cast

Robert Anderson as Paval Pavlovitch

Nell Craig as Anna Pavlovitch

Colleen Moore as Tatyone

John Cook as Stepan

Frank Leigh as Ivan Ivaoff

Arthur Jasmine as Lyof

Richard Cummings as Father Alexyei

Robert Lawler as Vaska

Arthur Maude as Nikolai

References

Bibliography

Codori, Jeff. Colleen Moore: A Biography of the Silent Film Star. McFarland, 2012.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Common Property” as 1919 silent film. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1919, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Common, Property and silent can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1919 silent film. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105227678. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1919 and 2012.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Common Property”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Common Property primary sources, Common Property archive and Common research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Common Property”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Common Property” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.