| ~Plot Synopsis~ |
No, this society drama is not related in any way, shape or form to the 1949 Katherine
Hepburn/Spencer Tracy comedy. It's one of Cecil B. DeMille's most critically savaged pictures. At 34,
Anna Q. Nilsson was a bit young to play the neglected middle-aged wife of business man Michael
Ramsay (Milton Sills). The deposed King of Morania (Theodore Kosling) begins to draw Mrs. Ramsay's
attention away from her marriage and she makes plans to run off with him. Ramsay, meanwhile, is
trying to keep his marriage intact by spending his fortune in an attempt to get the king back on his
throne. All this is viewed with disgust by the Ramsay's flapper daughter, Mathilda (Pauline Garon).
Although she is engaged to professor Nathan Reade (Elliott Dexter), Mathilda makes a play for the
king, just to keep him away from her mother. She winds up saving her mother but ruining her own
reputation and destroying Reade's trust. Ramsay makes himself a new fortune and reconciles with his
wife, who writes a confession for Mathilda to hand to Reade. She takes it down to him in the tropics,
where he is working, but he decides to believe her and destroys the letter without reading it. The last
part of the film contains a sequence shot on color film. DeMille was famous for his fantasy sequences
and this one, which takes place in caveman days, is one of his worst.
Plot Synopsis from allmovie.com
Hepburn/Spencer Tracy comedy. It's one of Cecil B. DeMille's most critically savaged pictures. At 34,
Anna Q. Nilsson was a bit young to play the neglected middle-aged wife of business man Michael
Ramsay (Milton Sills). The deposed King of Morania (Theodore Kosling) begins to draw Mrs. Ramsay's
attention away from her marriage and she makes plans to run off with him. Ramsay, meanwhile, is
trying to keep his marriage intact by spending his fortune in an attempt to get the king back on his
throne. All this is viewed with disgust by the Ramsay's flapper daughter, Mathilda (Pauline Garon).
Although she is engaged to professor Nathan Reade (Elliott Dexter), Mathilda makes a play for the
king, just to keep him away from her mother. She winds up saving her mother but ruining her own
reputation and destroying Reade's trust. Ramsay makes himself a new fortune and reconciles with his
wife, who writes a confession for Mathilda to hand to Reade. She takes it down to him in the tropics,
where he is working, but he decides to believe her and destroys the letter without reading it. The last
part of the film contains a sequence shot on color film. DeMille was famous for his fantasy sequences
and this one, which takes place in caveman days, is one of his worst.
Plot Synopsis from allmovie.com
| Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille Written by: Jeanie Macpherson |
| ~Cast~ Milton Sills ... Michael Ramsay Elliott Dexter ... Prof. Nathan Reade Theodore Kosloff ... Jaromir XIII - Deposed King of Morania Anna Q. Nilsson ... Mrs. Michael Ramsay Pauline Garon ... Mathilda Ramsay Julia Faye ... The Mischievous One Clarence Geldart ... James Kilkenna Robert Brower ... Hugo Kermaier Forrest Robinson ... Kramer Gino Corrado ... Lt. Braschek Wedgwood Nowell ... Minister's Secretary Clarence Burton ... Cave Man William Boyd ... Undetermined Subordinate Role (uncredited) George Field ... Minister to Moravia (uncredited) Robert St. Angelo ... Undetermined Subordinate Role (uncredited) |
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| ~Remaining Credits~ Produced by: Famous Players-Lasky Corporation Released by: Paramount Pictures Produced by: Cecil B. DeMille Cinematography by: L. Guy Wilky & Alvin Wyckoff Film Editor: Anne Bauchens Costume Design: Clare West Assistant Art Direction: A. Arnold Gillespie Presenter: Jesse L. Lasky Length: 10 Reels Runtime: 106 minutes Released: March 5, 1923 Premiere: Los Angeles, March 4, 1923 |
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| ~Adam's Rib~ 1923 |
| ~513-98: Pauline Garon & Milton Sills~ |
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