The Way of All Flesh (1927) is a drama film directed by Victor Fleming, written by Lajos Biró, Jules Furthman and Julian Johnson from a story by Perley Poore Sheehan. The film is unrelated to Samuel Butler's novel The Way of All Flesh, and is now considered a lost film.
The film is a melodrama starring Emil Jannings, Belle Bennett, and Phyllis Haver. Jannings won the first Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in this...
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The Way of All Flesh (1927) is a drama film directed by Victor Fleming, written by Lajos Biró, Jules Furthman and Julian Johnson from a story by Perley Poore Sheehan. The film is unrelated to Samuel Butler's novel The Way of All Flesh, and is now considered a lost film.
The film is a melodrama starring Emil Jannings, Belle Bennett, and Phyllis Haver. Jannings won the first Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in this film and his performance in The Last Command (the only year that acting Oscars were awarded for multiple performances).
No known copies of this film in its entirety are known to survive, making Jannings' the only Academy Award-winning performance with no known copy, or positive or negative elements, of the film in any private collection or film archive. This is one of Victor Fleming's many lost silent films of the 1920s. Star Emil Jannings won Best Actor in 1929 on the basis of TWO performances in the first year of the Academy Awards (the...
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