Bluebeard's Seven Wives

Bluebeard's Seven Wives
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Directed by	Alfred Santell
Written by	Randolph Bartlett
Story by	Blanche Merrill Paul Schofield
Produced by	Robert Kane
Starring	Ben Lyon Lois Wilson Blanche Sweet
Cinematography	Robert Haller
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release date	January 13, 1926 (1926-01-13)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Bluebeard's Seven Wives is a 1926 American silent comedy film produced and released by First National Pictures. It was directed by Alfred Santell and starred Ben Lyon, Lois Wilson, and Blanche Sweet. ^[1]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, ^[2] John Hart, who works as a teller in a bank, is fired after a shortage is found in his account. He gets a job at a movie studio, where they consider him a "find" and everyone works to make him a star. The publicity department has his name changed to Don Juan Hartez and he is planted on an incoming steamer. As a new screen lover, a press agent scheme is to marry him to seven wives. However, John balks after a few fake marriages and runs off and marries his sweetheart Mary Kelly.

Cast

• Ben Lyon as John Hart / Don Juan Hartez
• Lois Wilson as Mary Kelly
• Blanche Sweet as Juliet
• Dorothy Sebastian as Gilda La Bray
• Diana Kane as Kathra Granni
• Sam Hardy as Gindelheim
• Dick Bernard as Film Magnate
• Andrew Mack as Film Magnate
• Daniel Pennell as B. C. Duval
• Wilfred Lytell as Paris
• Katherine Ray as Wife
• Ruby Blaine as Wife
• Lucy Fox as Wife
• Muriel Spring ^[3] as Wife
• Kathleen Martyn as Wife

Preservation

With no prints of Bluebeard's Seven Wives located in any film archives, ^[4] it is a lost film. ^[5]

References

1. Progressive Silent Film List: Bluebeard's Seven Wives at silentera.com
2. Pardy, George T. (January 9, 1926), "Pre-Release Review of Features: Bluebeard's Seven Wives", Motion Picture News, 33 (2), New York City, New York: Motion Picture News, Inc.: 194, retrieved January 9, 2023 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. • "1923 Press Photo Actress and Follies Dancer Muriel Spring on Liner SS Majestic". eBay. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
   • "Harry Cahill". Jazz Age Club. April 16, 2021. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
   • Albuquerque Morning Journal, 12-23-1921 "...protest was made by Miss Muriel Spring, actress, when she was arrested in New York charged with failing to pay duty on jewelry and..."
   • Billboard-1921-12-31 "Muriel Spring, moving picture actress, living at the Ambassador Hotel, must appear before United States Commissioner S. M. Hltcbeook on January 3..."
   • "'Bluebeard's Seven Wives', lobbycard". Getty Images. 1925. Retrieved April 30, 2023. Ben Lyon, Katherine Ray, Ruby Blaine, Lucy Fox, Muriel Spring, Kathleen Martyn
   • File:Muriel Spring - Dec 1922 HD.jpg
4. Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Bluebeard's Seven Wives
5. Bluebeard's Seven Wives at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: First National Pictures 1926 Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Bluebeard's Seven Wives at AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Bluebeard's Seven Wives at IMDb
• Lobby cards and advertising material at dorothysebastian.com