Lombardi, Ltd. (also sometimes styled Lombardi Limited in publicity materials) is a surviving 1919 American silent feature comedy film. It was adapted by June Mathis from a 1917 play of the same name by Frederick and Fanny Hatton, and directed by Jack Conway. Warner Baxter had an early uncredited minor role in the film.
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Plot
Tito Lombardi's struggling Fifth Avenue couture house is spiraling into financial failure. Through a Broadway investor he meets and falls for a showgirl who soon proves to be a gold-digger; his attractive but unassuming female assistant Norah loves him but has never made her feelings known. With money from a third-party inheritance and some ingenuity on Norah's part, the House of Lombardi is resurrected. Lombardi and Norah find true love together.
Cast
Bert Lytell as Tito Lambardi
Alice Lake as Norah Blake
Vera Lewis as Mollie
Juanita Hansen as Phyllis Manning
George A. McDaniel as Riccardo 'Ricky' Tosello
Joseph Kilgour as Bob Tarrant
Thomas Jefferson as James Hodkins
Thea Talbot as Eloise
Ann May as Lida
John Steppling as Max Strohan
Jean Acker as Daisy
Virginia Caldwell as Yvette
Golda Madden as Clothilde
Miss DuPont as Muriel (credited as Patricia Hannan)
Preservation status
A print of Lombardi, Ltd. was donated by the MGM and is preserved at the George Eastman Museum.