The Beautiful and Damned (film)
| The Beautiful and Damned | |
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| Directed by | William A. Seiter |
| Written by | Olga Printzlau |
| Based on | The Beautiful and Damned (1922 novel) by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Starring | Kenneth Harlan Marie Prevost |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
| Budget | $108,000[2] |
| Box office | $349,000[2] |
The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 American
drama film directed by William A. Seiter and released by Warner Bros. The film, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 novel The Beautiful and Damned, starred Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost.[3]
Plot
 | This article needs a plot summary. (February 2024) |
Cast
- Marie Prevost as Gloria
- Kenneth Harlan as Anthony
- Harry Myersas Dick
- Tully Marshall as Adam Patch
- Louise Fazenda as Muriel
- Cleo Ridgely as Dot
- Emmett King as Mr. Gilbert
- Walter Long as Hull
- Clarence Burton as Bloeckman
- J. Parker McConnell as Maury
- Charles McHugh as Shuttleworth
- Kathleen Key as Rachel
- George Kuwa as Tanner
Production
To publicize the film,
annullment, and when the publicity surrounding the scandal died down, Prevost and Harlan quietly married.[4]
Reception
The film did well at the box office and critics were generally favorable. According to Warner Bros. records the film earned $327,000 domestically and $22,000 from foreign markets.[2]
F. Scott Fitzgerald, however, disliked the film. He later wrote to a friend "It's by far the worst movie I've ever seen in my life-cheap, vulgar, ill-constructed and shoddy. We were utterly ashamed of it."[5][6]
Preservation status
The film is currently listed as a
nitrate film
negatives in the late 1940s and 1950s due to their decomposition.
References
- ^ The Beautiful and Damned at the American Film Institute Catalog
- ^ a b c Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 1 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
- ISBN 978-0-8160-6433-5.
- ISBN 1-55002-348-9.
- ISBN 978-1-438-10845-2.
- ISBN 978-1-59393-605-1.
- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: The Beautiful and Damned". silentera.com. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
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