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Main Street (1923 film)

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'Main Street' is a 1923 American silent drama film based on the 1920 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Harry Beaumont. A Broadway play version of the novel was produced in 1921.[http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=12655 'Main Street' as produced on Broadway at the National Theatre October 5, 1921 to December 1921; IBDb.com] It was the first film to be released after the foundation of Warner Bros. Pictures on April 4, 1923.

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According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $510,000 domestically and $46,000 foreign.

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'Main Street' is lost.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/MainStreet1923.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'Main Street'] at silentera.com[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7229/default.html 'Main Street' at American Silent Feature Film Survival Database][https://archive.org/details/mediahistory&tab=collection?and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22Motion%20pictures%20--%20Catalogues%22 1957 Movies from AAP Warner Bros Features & Cartoons Sales Book Directed at TV] Warner Bros. records of the film's negative have a notation, "Junked 12/27/48" (i.e., December 27, 1948). Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to nitrate decomposition of its pre-1933 films.

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