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Dolores Del Rio and Warner Baxter.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Ramona
(1928) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 7650 feet
Directed by Edwin Carewe
Cast: Dolores Del Rio [Ramona], Warner Baxter [Alessandro], Roland Drew [Felipe], Vera Lewis [Señora Moreno], Michael Visaroff [Juan Canito], John T. Prince [Father Salvierderra], Mathilde Comont [Marda], Carlos Amor [a sheepherder], Jess Cavin [the bandit leader], Rita Carewe [the baby], Jean the dog
Inspiration Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by United Artists Corporation [An Edwin Carewe Production; United Artists Picture]. / Produced by Edwin Carewe. Scenario by Finis Fox, from the novel Ramona: A Story by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set design by Tec-Art Studios. Assistant director, Leander De Cordova. Second assistant director, Richard Easton. Cinematography by Robert B. Kurrle. Camera assistant, Al M. Greene. Film editor, Jeanne Spencer. Intertitles written by Finis Fox. Theme song “Ramona” by Mabel Wayne (music) and L. Wolfe Gilbert (lyrics). Presented by Inspiration Pictures, Incorporated, and Edwin Carewe. / © 6 March 1928 by Inspiration Pictures, Incorporated [LP25048]. Released 11 February 1928. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was previously filmed as Ramona (1916). The novel was subsequently filmed as Ramona (1936). [?] Website-IMDb lists the release month as May 1928. / Silent film.
Drama: Historical.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. 4443.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (repatriation gift from the Narodni Filmovy Archiv) [Czech intertitles]; and the Gosfilmofond film archive [35mm nitrate positive (German intertitles)].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Amnesia - Animals: Dogs, Horses - Crime: Murder - Death: Murder - Halfcastes - Native Americans - Race relations - Spaniards
Listing updated: 15 August 2025.
References: Film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.3636; AFI-F2 n. F2.4443; Bohn-Light p. 112; Kobal-Fifty p. 45 : Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Hugh Munro Neely.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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