‘Intolerance’ anthology silent film premieres in New York City 110 years ago this hour (Sep 5 1916)


Video: 'Intolerance' trailer

(Saturday, August 5, 1916, 8:10 p.m. EST)Intolerance, an epic silent film featuring four stories from different eras intertwined to depict man’s inhumanity to man, premiered at the Liberty Theatre, 234 West 42nd Street, on the south side between Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue near the southern end of Times Square, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York (it had been “previewed” Aug. 5, 1916, in Riverside, California).


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Directed by D. W. Griffith, the film starred Vera Lewis, Ralph Lewis, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Constance Talmadge, Lillian Gish, Josephine Crowell, Margery Wilson, Frank Bennett, Elmer Clifton, Miriam Cooperand and Alfred Paget.

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