Peg o' My Heart (1922 film)

Peg o' My Heart
Film poster
Directed byKing Vidor
Written byMary O'Hara
Based onPeg O' My Heart
1918 novel
by J. Hartley Manners
Produced byJ. Hartley Manners
StarringLaurette Taylor
CinematographyGeorge Barnes
Distributed byMetro Pictures
Release date
  • December 18, 1922 (1922-12-18)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Lionel Belmore, Laurette Taylor and Russell Simpson in Peg o' My Heart.
lobby poster.

Peg o' My Heart is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor and starring Laurette Taylor. It is based on the 1912 play written by Taylor's husband J. Hartley Manners. The play starred Laurette Taylor and famously ran a record number of performances on Broadway.[1] Six reels of the original eight reels survive at the Library of Congress.[2]

  1. ^ Durgnat and Simmons, 1988 p. 36: Approximately “ten thousand English-language performances....within six years of its 1912 debut.”
  2. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Peg o' My Heart". Silent Era. Retrieved March 8, 2008.