Married Flirts is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Robert Vignola and starring Pauline Frederick, Mae Busch, and Conrad Nagel.[1] The screenplay, written by Julia Ivers, is based on Louis Joseph Vance's 1923 best seller Mrs. Paramor.[2] The drama was considered quite daring at the time as the story centered on husbands being lured away from their wives. One scene has well known Hollywood stars playing themselves at a party.
Married Flirts | |
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Directed by | Robert G. Vignola |
Written by | Julia Ivers |
Based on | Mrs. Paramor by Louis Joseph Vance |
Starring | Pauline Frederick Mae Busch Conrad Nagel |
Cinematography | Oliver T. Marsh |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Plot
editNellie Wayne (Pauline Frederick) is a novelist who loses her husband to a vamp, who thereupon rejects him to marry another man, who is seduced by the novelist.
Cast
edit- Pauline Frederick as Nellie Wayne
- Conrad Nagel as Perley Rex
- Mae Busch as Jill Wetherell
- Huntley Gordon as Pendleton Wayne
- Paul Nicholson as Peter Granville
- Patterson Dial as Evelyn Draycup
- Alice Hollister as Mrs. Callender
- John Gilbert as himself, guest at party
- Hobart Henley as himself, guest at party
- Robert Z. Leonard as himself, guest at party
- May McAvoy as herself, guest at party
- Mae Murray as herself, guest at party
- Aileen Pringle as herself, guest at party
- Norma Shearer as herself, guest at party
Preservation
editWith no prints of the film located in any film archives,[3] Married Flirts is classified as a lost film.[4] The last known copy of the film was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Married Flirts at silentera.com
- ^ White Munden, Kenneth (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930. University of California Press. p. 496. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
- ^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Married Flirts
- ^ Greta de Groat. "Pauline Frederick: Married Flirts (1924)". stanford.edu. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
- ^ ""Married Flirts"".
External links
edit- Married Flirts at IMDb
- Married Flirts at AllMovie
- Married Flirts at the TCM Movie Database