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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The Light of Happiness
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by John H. Collins

Cast: Viola Dana [Tangletop], George Melville [Henry Mullins, her father], Lorraine Frost [Mollie Dean], Harry Linsen [Myron Dean], Edward Earle [Lowell Van Orden], Jack Busby [Emmett Dwight], Mona Kingsley [Madeline Dwight], Robert Walker [Reverend Clyde Harmon], Charles Boone, Mrs. Wallace Erskine (Margery Bonney Erskine)

Columbia Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation [A Metro Wonderplay]. / Scenario by John H. Collins. Interiors (set design) by Ed J. Schulter (Edward Shulter). Cinematography by H.O. Carleton (Herbert Oswald Carleton). Presented by Columbia Pictures Corporation. / © 5 September 1916 by Columbia Pictures Corporation [LP9053]. Released 4 September 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 21 December 2024.

References: Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.