Oil and Water is a 1913 film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. The supporting cast includes Henry B. Walthall, Lionel Barrymore, and Harry Carey. A stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that their individual styles don't mesh. The movie includes elaborate dance sequences.[1]
| Oil and Water | |
|---|---|
 Newspaper advertisement | |
| Directed by | D. W. Griffith |
| Written by | Edward |
| Starring | Blanche Sweet Henry B. Walthall Lionel Barrymore Harry Carey |
| Cinematography | G. W. Bitzer |
| Distributed by | Biograph Company General Film Company |
Release date |
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Running time | 25 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film English intertitles |
The film was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in July 2007 as part of a Biograph studio retrospective.
Cast
edit- Blanche Sweet - Mlle. Genova
- Henry B. Walthall - The Idealist
- Lionel Barrymore - In First Audience/In Second Audience/Visitor
- Walter Miller - The Idealist's Brother, a Minister
- Clara T. Bracy - The Nurse
- Harry Carey - Stage Manager/At Dinner
- Gertrude Bambrick - Among Dancers
- Kathleen Butler - In First Audience/Among Dancers
- William J. Butler - Among Dancers
- John T. Dillon - In Second Audience/At Dinner
- Frank Evans - In First Audience/In Second Audience
- Dorothy Gish - In First Audience
- Lillian Gish - In First Audience
- Robert Harron
- J. Jiquel Lanoe - In First Audience / Among Dancers
- Adolph Lestina - In Second Audience
- Charles Hill Mailes
- Joseph McDermott - Actor in Play/At Dinner
- W. Chrystie Miller - In First Audience
- Antonio Moreno - Actor in Play
- Alfred Paget - Among Dancers
- Matt Snyder - In First Audience (*aka Matt B. Snyder)
- Charles West - In First Audience/In Second Audience
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