A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Joan Crawford [Billie Brown], Rod La Rocque [Glenn Abbott], Douglas Fairbanks Jr. [Gil Jordan], Anita Page [Kentucky], Edward Nugent [Reg], Josephine Dunn [Ginger], Albert Gran [B. Bickering Brown]

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Produced by Hunt Stromberg. Scenario by Josephine Lovett, from a screen story by Josephine Lovett. Production design by Cedric Gibbons. Gowns by Adrian (Gilbert Adrian). Dance direction by George Cunningham. Cinematography by Oliver Marsh. Film editor, Sam S. Zimbalist. Intertitles written by Marian Ainslee and Ruth Cummings. Music score by William Axt. / © 12 August 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP591]. Released 24 August 1929. / Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format (sound version) and Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format (silent version). Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Crawford’s last silent film. The film was also released in the USA in a silent version by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Affairs - Americans (Abroad) - Art Deco - France - Infidelity - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 31 January 2025.

References: Mandelbaum-Screen pp. 33, 50, 144; Quirk-Crawford pp. 16, 72, 73; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 244-246; Webb-Hollywood p. 186 : ClasIm-221 p. 16; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1 December 1929, p. 9E : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.