Rose of the World (1925 film)

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Rose of the World
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Film still with Forrest and Miller
Directed by Harry Beaumont
Screenplay by Julien Josephson
Dorothy Farnum
Based onRose of the World
by Kathleen Norris
Produced by Harry Cohn
Starring Patsy Ruth Miller
Allan Forrest
Pauline Garon
Cinematography David Abel
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • November 21, 1925 (1925-11-21)(US) [1]
Running time
8 reels
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Rose of the World is a 1925 American silent melodrama film directed by Harry Beaumont, which stars Patsy Ruth Miller, Allan Forrest, and Pauline Garon. The screenplay was written by Julien Josephson and Dorothy Farnum. Based on the 1924 novel of the same name by Kathleen Norris, the film was released by Warner Brothers on November 21, 1925. [2]

Contents

The film has no relation to the 1918 film of the same name released by Artcraft Pictures, which is based upon a different novel.

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, [3] a young man who breaks his engagement to one woman to marry another learns after marriage that he is sadly mismated. The woman to whom he was first engaged also marries and is unhappy. The frivolous wife of the hero dies, however, and his longing turnstoward the woman he once rejected. Her husband is killed, and she and the man who once spurned her plan a happy future together.

Cast list

Preservation

With no prints of Rose of the World located in any film archives, [4] it is a lost film.

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References

  1. "Rose of the World: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on September 23, 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
  2. Progressive Silent Film List: Rose of the World at silentera.com
  3. "New Pictures: Rose of the World", Exhibitors Herald, 23 (11), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 69, December 5, 1925, retrieved November 14, 2022PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Rose of the World