A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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For the Love of Mike
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by Frank R. Capra (Frank Capra)

Cast: Ben Lyon [Mike], Claudette Colbert [Mary], Ford Sterling [Herman Schultz], George Sidney [Abraham Katz], Hugh Cameron [Patrick O’Malley], Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher [Coxey Pendleton], Rudolph Cameron [Henry Sharp], Mabel Swor [Evelyn Joyce]

[?] Robert Kane Productions? production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated [A First National Picture]. / Produced by Robert Kane. Scenario by J. Clarkson Miller and Leland Hayward, from the short story “Hell’s Kitchen” by John Moroso. Cinematography by Ernest Haller. Presented by Robert Kane. / Released 31 July 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Colbert’s film debut. / Silent film.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 8 October 2022.

References: McBride-Capra p. 723; Poague-Capra pp. 46-47, 96, 236; Vermilye-Twenties p. 218 : Website-IMDb.