| ~Plot Synopsis~ |
Filmed through mounds of gauze, silent movie queen Mae Murray stars in MGM's Altars of Desire.
Murray plays a willful American lass whose wealthy dad (Robert Edeson) sends her to Paris so that she
may pick up some "refinement." Instead, she picks up a fortune-hunting nobleman, played as a frivolous
fop by a monocled Andre Beranger. True-blue hero Conway Tearle prevents Murray from making a
bigger fool of herself than she already is. Such was Mae Murray's reputation for temperamental
tantrums that few of MGM's directors wanted anything to do with her. Thus, the studio went to the
bottom of the directorial pecking order and came up with the efficient but uninspired William "Christy"
Cabanne, who let Murray run amok on the set, but still came up with a releasable (and very profitable)
picture.
Plot Synopsis from allmovie.com
Murray plays a willful American lass whose wealthy dad (Robert Edeson) sends her to Paris so that she
may pick up some "refinement." Instead, she picks up a fortune-hunting nobleman, played as a frivolous
fop by a monocled Andre Beranger. True-blue hero Conway Tearle prevents Murray from making a
bigger fool of herself than she already is. Such was Mae Murray's reputation for temperamental
tantrums that few of MGM's directors wanted anything to do with her. Thus, the studio went to the
bottom of the directorial pecking order and came up with the efficient but uninspired William "Christy"
Cabanne, who let Murray run amok on the set, but still came up with a releasable (and very profitable)
picture.
Plot Synopsis from allmovie.com
| Directed by: Christy Cabanne Written by: Ruth Cummings - titles Maria T. Davis - story Agnes Christine Johnston - writer Albert E. Lewin - writer Alice D.G. Miller - writer |
| ~Cast~ Mae Murray ... Claire Sutherland Conway Tearle ... David Elrod Robert Edeson ... John Sutherland Maude George ... Kitty Pryor George Beranger ... Count André D'Orville |
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| ~Remaining Credits~ Produced & Released by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Cinematography by: William H. Daniels Film Editing: George Hively Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons & A. Arnold Gillespie Costume Design by: André-ani, Kathleen Kay & Maude Marsh Wardrobe Supervisor: Mrs. E.F. Chaffin Publicity Photographer: Ruth Harriet Louise Length: 7 Reels Runtime: 60 minutes Released: February 5, 1927 |
| ~Altars of Desire~ 1927 |
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