An American Citizen

{{short description|1914 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{infobox film | name = An American Citizen | image = American-Citizen-John-Barrymore.jpg | caption = John Barrymore in ''An American Citizen'' | director = J. Searle Dawley | producer = Adolph Zukor<br>Daniel Frohman | based_on = {{based on|''An American Citizen''|Madeleine Lucette Ryley}} | starring = John Barrymore | music = | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = Famous Players Film Company | released = {{film date|1914|1|14|United States}} | runtime = 4 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''An American Citizen''''' is a 1914 American silent romantic comedy film directed by J. Searle Dawley.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: An American Citizen |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/16340-AN-AMERICANCITIZEN |access-date=2025-12-06 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref> The film is noteworthy as the feature film debut of John Barrymore. Distributed by Famous Players Film Company, the film is based on the 1897 Broadway play of the same name by Madeleine Lucette Ryley.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tibbetts|first=John C|title=The American Theatrical Film: Stages in Development|year=1985|publisher=John C|isbn=0-879-72289-4|page=69}}</ref> The film is now presumed lost.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |others= |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: An American Citizen |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3416/default.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508140100/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3416/default.html |archive-date=2023-05-08 |access-date=2025-12-06 |website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1=Tibbetts, John C. |editor2=Welsh, James M |title=American Classic Screen Features|year=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-810-87679-8|page=25}}</ref> upright=1.2|thumb|John Barrymore in ''An American Citizen'' ==Cast== * John Barrymore - Beresford Kruger * Evelyn Moore - Beatrice Carewe * Peter Lang - Peter Barbury * Hal Clarendon - Egerton Brown * Mrs. M.S. Smith - Carola Chapin * Ethel West - Georgia Chapin * Howard Missimer - Sir Humphrey Bunn * Edith Henkle - Lady Bunn * Alexander Gaden - Otto Storbie * Wellington A. Playter - Valet * Joe Short - Office Boy * Ernest Truex - Mercury * Alexandru Haidau

==See also== *List of Paramount Pictures films *John Barrymore filmography

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==External links== {{Commons category|An American Citizen}} * {{IMDb title|0003618}} * {{TCMDb title|335423}} * [http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/john-barrymore-evelyn-moore-1914-ad-1431117135 Famous Players - ad](archived) * [https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/american-citizen-glass-slide-1914-1880600605 glass slide](archived) *[https://archive.org/details/anamericancitiz00rylegoog/page/n6/mode/2up ''An American Citizen: An Original Comedy in Four Acts''] by Madeleine Lucette Ryley *[https://www.kinotv.com/page/film.php?filmcode=50689&q=0&l=en Kinotv]''An American Citizen'' *[https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/american-citizen-herald-1914-1931190032 surviving herald]

{{J. Searle Dawley}}

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