Gloria’s Romance
Also known as O Romance de Glória in Portugal
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Serial / 20 chapters / 40 reels
Directed by Walter Edwin
Cast: Billie Burke [Gloria Stafford], Henry Kolker [Doctor Stephen Royce], David Powell [Richard Freneau], William Roselle [David Stafford, Gloria’s brother], Frank Belcher [Frank Mulry, Frenau’s partner], William T. Carleton [Pierpoint Stafford], Jule Power [Lois Freeman, Judge Freeman’s daughter], Henry Weaver [Judge Freeman], Frank McGlynn (Sr.) [Gideon Trask], Helen Hart [Nell Trask], Maxfield Moree, Maurice Steuart [Stass Casimir], Rapley Holmes [Chooey McFadden], Adelaide Hastings [Gloria’s governess], Ralph Bunker, Henry Hallam, Lillian Beck, Elizabeth Patterson Dial (Patterson Dial), Virginia Clark, [?] Richard Barthelmess [extra]?
[?] Randolph Film Corporation or Kleine Productions, Incorporated, or George Kleine Productions? production; distributed by [?] George Kleine through K-E-S-E Service? / Produced by George Kleine. Scenario by Rupert Hughes and Mrs. Rupert Hughes, from a screen story by Rupert Hughes and Mrs. Rupert Hughes. Costume design by Lucille (Lady Duff Gordon), Henri Bendel and [?] ? Balcom. Assistant director, Campbell Gollan. Cinematography by Sidney Hickox. Original music score by Jerome Kern. Presented by George Kleine. / 20 chapters (two reels each): [1] “Lost in the Everglades,” released 22 May 1916; [2] “Caught by the Seminoles,” released 29 May 1916; [3] “A Perilous Love,” released 5 June 1916; [4] “The Social Vortex,” released 12 June 1916; [5] “The Gathering Storm,” released 19 June 1916; [6] “Hidden Fires,” released 26 June 1916; [7] “The Harvest of Sin,” released 3 July 1916; [8] “The Mesh of Mystery,” released 10 July 1916; [9] “The Shadow of Scandal,” released 17 July 1916; [10] “Tangled Threads,” released 24 July 1916; [11] “The Fugitive Witness,” released 31 July 1916; [12] “Her Fighting Spirit,” released 7 August 1916; [13] “The Midnight Riot,” released 14 August 1916; [14] “The Floating Trap,” released 21 August 1916; [15] “The Murderer at Bay,” released 28 August 1916; [16] “A Modern Pirate,” released 4 September 1916; [17] “The Tell-Tale Envelope,” released 11 September 1916; [18] “The Bitter Truth,” released 18 September 1916; [19] “Her Vow Fulfilled,” released 25 September 1916; [20] “Love’s Reward,” released 2 October 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Burke was paid $150,000 to do the serial. Kern conducted the orchestra at the New York premiere. Barthelmess’s film debut. The serial was released in Portugal as O Romance de Glória beginning 8 June 1919.
Drama.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Serials
Listing updated: 4 May 2020.
References: Katchmer-Eighty pp. 16, 18; Lahue-Continued pp. 47, 169, 285; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 24; Stedman-Serials p. 37; Tarbox-Lost p. 227 : Website-IMDb; Website-SerSq.
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