Lovey Mary

{{short description|1926 silent film by King Baggot}} {{About|the 1926 film|the novel on which it is based|Lovey Mary (book)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Lovey Mary | image = Lovey Mary.jpg | alt = | caption = Poster | director = King Baggot | producer = | writer = {{Plainlist| * Agnes Christine Johnston * Charles Maigne * George Marion, Jr. (titles) }} | based_on = {{based on|''Lovey Mary'' (novel)|Alice Hegan Rice}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Lovey Mary |last=Rice |first=Alice Hegan |location=New York, NY |publisher=The Century Co. |date=1903 |oclc=669917717 |lccn=03005787}}</ref> | narrator = | starring = {{Plainlist| * Bessie Love * William Haines * Mary Alden }} | music = | cinematography = Ira H. Morgan | editing = Frank Davis | studio = | distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | released = {{Film date|1926|06|26|U.S.}} | runtime = 7 reels; 6,167 feet<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor83novd/page/110 |magazine=Moving Picture World |page=111 |date=November 13, 1926 |title=Star, Story Type, Review and Footage Here; Short Subjects Separated from Features}}</ref> | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }}

'''''Lovey Mary''''' is a 1926 American comedy-drama film directed by King Baggot, with Bessie Love in the title role. It is based on the 1903 novel of the same name by Alice Hegan Rice, a sequel to Rice's ''Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/L/LoveyMary1926.html|title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''Lovey Mary'' |website=Silent Era|last=Bennett|first=Carl|date=July 18, 2015}}</ref> It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The film survives, but is incomplete.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2750/default.html|title=American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''Lovey Mary'' / King Baggot|website=Library of Congress}}</ref>

== Plot == Lovey Mary runs away from an orphanage with Tommy so that he will not have to return to his bad mother. Lovey and Tommy stay at the home of Miss Hazey, who is about to marry a man whom she knows only from correspondence.

Billy Wiggs lives next door, and Lovey works with his sisters in a factory to earn money for herself and Tommy. On the day of Miss Hazey's wedding, her fiancee recognizes Lovey from the orphanage and reveals her true identity. Lovey and Billy plan to marry and adopt Tommy.<ref name="aficat">{{cite book|title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films 1921–1930|editor-last=Munden|editor-first=Kenneth W.|publisher=R.R. Bowker Company|location=New York|date=1971|oclc=664500075|pages=[https://archive.org/details/americanfilminst00amer/page/464 464]–5|url=https://archive.org/details/americanfilminst00amer|url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew00moti_17|title=Motion Picture News Booking Guide|date=October 1926|page=[https://archive.org/details/motionpicturenew00moti_17/page/36 36]}}</ref>

== Cast == {{castlist| * Bessie Love as Lovey Mary * William Haines as Billy Wiggs * Mary Alden as Mrs. Wiggs * Vivia Ogden as Miss Hazey{{efn|Ogden revived the role she played on Broadway in ''Mrs. Wiggs'' in 1906.{{cn|date=April 2026}} }} * Martha Mattox as Miss Bell * Jackie Combs as Tommy * Fred Cox as Baby Tommy * Gloria Holt as Europena * Mary Jane Irving as Asia * Annabelle Magnus as Australia * Eileen Percy as Kate * Russell Simpson as Stubbins * Rosa Gore as Miss Eichorn * Sunshine Hart as Mrs. Chultz }}

== Production == To help her decide whether to participate in the film, MGM lent Bessie Love a copy of the novel ''Lovey Mary'' by Alice Hegan Rice in 1925—then-valued at $25 ({{Inflation|US|25|1925|r=-1|fmt=eq}}). Love never returned the book.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Readers' Corner|last=Love|first=Bessie|newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor|date=February 6, 1970|page=12}}</ref>

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== External links == {{Commons Category}} * {{IMDb title|0017088}} * {{AFI film|10460}} * [http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/20s-bessie-love-lovey-mary-vintage-143396475 Production still]

Category:1926 films Category:1926 comedy-drama films Category:1926 English-language films Category:American silent feature films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films based on American novels Category:Films directed by King Baggot Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Category:Films based on works by Alice Hegan Rice Category:1926 American films Category:American silent comedy-drama films Category:English-language comedy-drama films