Beauty and the Bad Man

Beauty and the Bad Man
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Directed by	William Worthington
Written by	Richard Schayer Frank E. Woods
Based on	"Cornflower Cassie's Concert" by Peter B. Kyne
Starring	Mabel Ballin Forrest Stanley Russell Simpson
Production company	Peninsula Studios
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date	March 29, 1925 (1925-03-29)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

Beauty and the Bad Man is a lost 1925 American silent Western film directed by William Worthington and starring Mabel Ballin, Forrest Stanley, and Russell Simpson. ^{[1] [2]}

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, ^[3] Cassie, an orphan with vocal abilities, enters the mining town after fleeing from her worthless husband of one day. She meets the gambler, who likes her and stakes her with the money he won after breaking the bank. She uses the money to cultivate her voice, and then returns to the mining town famous. Her old husband wants her to return, and when she refuses he fires a gun, but he is late and is winged by a friend of the gambler. Cassie then realizes her love for the gambler.

Cast

• Mabel Ballin as Cassie
• Forrest Stanley as Madoc Bill
• Russell Simpson as Chuckwalla Bill
• George Beranger as L.I.B. Bell
• Edna Mae Cooper as Mayme
• James Gordon as Gold Hill Cassidy

Preservation

With no prints of Beauty and the Bad Man located in any film archives, ^[4] it is a lost film.

References

1. Munden, Kenneth White (1997) [1971]. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press. p. 46. ISBN   0520209699.
2. Progressive Silent Film List: Beauty and the Bad Man at silentera.com. November 18, 2022.
3. "New Pictures: Beauty and the Bad Man". Exhibitors Herald . Vol. 21, no. 9. May 23, 1925. p. 129. Retrieved November 18, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
4. "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Beauty And The Bad Man". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on October 17, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2025.

External links

• Beauty and the Bad Man at IMDb
• Lantern slide at silenthollywood.com