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Van Dyke Brooke (left), Jane Fearnley, Leo Delaney and Louise Beaudet.
Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
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Sawdust and Salome
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by Van Dyke Brooke
Cast: Van Dyke Brooke [John Grey], Leo Delaney [Walter Grey, his son], Louise Beaudet [Mrs. John Grey], Jane Fearnley [Elizabeth Grey, John’s daughter], Ada Gifford [Dorothy Marr, a society girl], Norma Talmadge [Mary, a circus rider], William Shea [Uncle Jerry]
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Valentine Fulton. / Released 16 February 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? To escape the designs of his mother and sister, who wish him to marry Dorothy Marr to further their social ambitions, Walter Gray goes out West, where he meets Mary, a bareback rider in a small circus, and falls in love with her. He marries her and brings her back home to his parents and sister, who treat her coldly. The Greys give a costume dance at which many daring costumes are worn; Dorothy’s Salome costume is the most risque’. Mary, unable to stand the family any longer and unhappy at her husband’s growing indifference, decides on the night of the dance, to steal out of the house and away. Walter sees her and asks where she is going; she points to the ballroom where Dorothy is dancing a Salome dance. Walter watches her for a moment and is struck by its unwholesomeness, feels revulsion, and says “Wait for me, Mary, I’m going with you!” Thus Mary wins out in her honest claims over his mean-spirited, hypocritical family who tried to set him against her.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 17 December 2024.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Slide-BigV p. 243 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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