Sunshine of Paradise Alley
1926 film directed by Jack Nelson
Sunshine of Paradise Alley is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Jack Nelson and starring Barbara Bedford, Kenneth MacDonald, and Max Davidson.
Cast
Barbara Bedford as Sunshine O'Day
Kenneth MacDonald as Jerry Sullivan
Max Davidson as Solomon Levy
Nigel Barrie as Stanley Douglas
Gayne Whitman as Glen Wathershoon
Lucille Lee Stewart as Gladys Waldroon
Tui Bow as Queenie May
J. Parks Jones as Chet Hawkins
Bobby Nelson as Bum
Frank Weed as Daddy O'Day
Max Asher
Evelyn Sherman
Leon Holmes
Monty O'Grady as Little Boy
Helene Pirie as Aggie
Preservation
Prints of Sunshine of Paradise Alley are in the collections of the Library of Congress, Archives Du Film Du CNC (Bois d'Arcy), BFI National Archive, and Lobster Films (Paris).
References
Bibliography
Donald W. McCaffrey & Christopher P. Jacobs. Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema. Greenwood Publishing, 1999.
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