Toby's Bow

{{short description|1919 film by Harry Beaumont}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{infobox film | name = Toby's Bow | image = Toby's Bow (1919) poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Harry Beaumont | producer = | writer = Edward T. Lowe Jr. (scenario) | screenplay = | based_on = {{based on|''Toby's Bow''|John Taintor Foote}} | starring = Tom Moore Doris Pawn Macey Harlam Arthur Housman Colin Kenny Augustus Phillips | music = | cinematography = Norbert Brodine | editing = | studio = Goldwyn Pictures | distributor = Goldwyn Pictures | released = {{Film date|1919|12|14}} | runtime = 50 minutes; 5 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }}

'''''Toby's Bow''''' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Tom Moore, Doris Pawn, Macey Harlam, Arthur Housman, Colin Kenny, and Augustus Phillips. It is based on the 1919 play of the same name by John Taintor Foote. The film was released by Goldwyn Pictures on December 14, 1919.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members//catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=&Movie=2333|title=Toby's Bow|work=afi.com|accessdate=17 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/tobys-bow-v113989|title=Toby's Bow|work=AllMovie|accessdate=17 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/498920/tobys-bow|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210607190034/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/498920/tobys-bow|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2021|title=Toby's Bow|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=17 May 2018}}</ref>

==Plot== {{no plot|date=May 2018}}

==Cast== *Tom Moore as Tom Blake *Doris Pawn as Eugenia *Macey Harlam as Dubois *Arthur Housman as Bagby *Colin Kenny as Bainbridge *Augustus Phillips as Paige *Catherine Wallace as Valerie *Violet Schram as Mona *Ruby Lafayette as Grandmother *George Kuwa as Jap *Nick Cogley as Uncle Toby

==Production== The role of the servant, Uncle Toby, was played by Nick Cogley in blackface. The use of blackface was not unusual in American silent films, and did not disappear in films until the 1930s when public sensibilities regarding race began to change and blackface became increasingly associated with racism and bigotry.<ref name=Kenrick>Kenrick, John. [http://www.musicals101.com/blackface.htm Blackface and Old Wounds]. Musicals101.com. From ''Theatre Lover's Journal'', Nov. 2000.</ref>

==Preservation== ''Toby's Bow'' is now considered to be a lost film.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9906/default.html American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Toby's Bow'']</ref>

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==External links== {{commons category|Toby's Bow}} *{{IMDb title|id=0010784|title=Toby's Bow}}

Category:1919 drama films Category:Lost American silent drama films Category:1919 films Category:American silent feature films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Goldwyn Pictures films Category:American films based on plays Category:1919 lost films Category:1919 American films Category:1919 English-language films