Anybody Here Seen Kelly?

Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
Directed by William Wyler
Written by Leigh Jason (story)
Walter Anthony (titles)
Albert DeMond (titles)
John B. Clymer
Rob Wagner
Produced by Richard Wyler
Starring Bessie Love
Tom Moore
Kate Price
Addie McPhail
Bruce Gordon
Alfred Allen
Cinematography Charles J. Stumar
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • September 9, 1928 (U.S.)
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)
Budget $60,000

Anybody Here Seen Kelly? is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by William Wyler. This was the first non-Western film to be directed by Wyler and is now considered to be a lost film. This is Bessie Love's final silent film. It was produced by Universal Pictures.

Production

Location scenes were filmed in New York City.

The title of the film originates from the 1908 British music hall standard "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" by C. W. Murphy and Will Letters. The song was popularized in the United States by singer Nora Bayes who sang it in the first ever Ziegfeld Follies.

Plot

While serving in the American Army during World War I, Pat Kelly (Moore), a womanizing soldier tells all the girls he romances to come and visit him in New York City after the war. Never expecting any of them to take him up on it, he gives his address as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, one determined French girl, Mitzi Lavelle (Love), comes to America looking for him. Walking through the streets of New York, she eventually finds him working as a traffic police officer.

Cast

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