July 1920
Step back in time to see what area movie theaters
were presenting in July 1920. Film titles are linked to the Internet
Movie Database.
For more information about these theaters,
see Cinema
Treasures or Water
Winter Wonderland.
Suds
was the second movie starring Mary Pickford following the formation of
the United Artists Corporation in 1919 by Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks,
D. W. Griffith, and Charlie Chaplin. Also, it was her first film after
she and Fairbanks were married on March 28, 1920.
Ann
Arbor audiences were treated to the opening of Suds
at the Arcade on Sunday, July 4, 1920. It followed a run of The
Fortune Teller (Marjorie Rambeau).
Suds
played at the Arcade for three days, along with the short comedy Eat-A-Bite-A-Pie.
It was succeeded by Whispers
(Elaine Hammerstein). Click here to see
a PDF of newspaper images relating to the opening of Suds.
"For
her exceptional work in United Artists productions Mary Pickford has been
presented with the first seal of honor by the Motion Picture Theatrical
Association of the World, her latest picture, 'Suds,' which will be shown
at the Arcade for three days commencing tomorrow, being considered the
acme of wholesome, artistic and sincere entertainment,' " read an
article in the July 3, 1920 edition of The Ann Arbor Times News.
Also
playing in Ann Arbor on July 4, 1920 were The
Dancin' Fool (Wallace Reid) at the Majestic; The
Garter Girl (Corinne Griffith) at the Wuerth; Erich Von Stroheim's
Blind
Husbands at the Orpheum; and Twenty-Three
and A-Half Hours' Leave (Douglas MacLean, Doris May) at the Rae
Theatre.
Detroit
movies on July 4 and 5, 1920 included The
Joyous Troublemaker (William Farnum) at the Washington; The
Sins of St. Anthony (Bryant Washburn) at the Broadway Strand;
Sick
Abed (Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels) at the Adams; Scratch
My Back (T. Roy Barnes, Helene Chadwick) at the Madison; Simple
Souls (Blanche Sweet) at the Colonial; The
Cheater (May Allison) at the Regent; The
Heart of Twenty (Zasu Pitts) at the Majestic; The
Orphan (William "Fighting Bill" Farnum) at the Miles;
Ashes
of Love (James K. Hackett) at the Orpheum; and The
Silver Horde (Myrtle Stedman) at the Liberty.
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