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While New York Sleeps

While New York Sleeps

Drama, Crime

1h 20m

August 23, 1920 (105 years ago)

Overview

An anthology of three dramas over the course of one evening in New York, with separate characters in each story played in all three by Marc MacDermott and Estelle Taylor. In one, a woman who has married believing her first and wrothless husband has been killed finds him returning to her for blackmail. The second part is the life of a cabaret vamp and a detective tricking each other, while the third story recalls a man who realizes his son's wife is cheating upon him with the man who lives in the apartment above him.

ActorAge thenAge now
Estelle Taylor

Estelle Taylor

A Wife / The Vamp / The Girl

Birthday: May 20, 1894

26 April 15, 1958 (63)
William J. Locke

William J. Locke

Her Husband

Birthday: March 20, 1863

57 May 15, 1930 (67)
Marc McDermott

Marc McDermott

Strange Visitor / The Man / The Paralytic

Birthday: July 24, 1881

39 January 5, 1929 (47)
Harry Sothern

Harry Sothern

Burglar / Friend / His Son

Birthday: April 24, 1883

37 February 22, 1957 (73)
Earl Metcalfe

Earl Metcalfe

The Gangster

Birthday: March 10, 1889

31 January 26, 1928 (38)