Stolen Love (1928 film)

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Stolen Love
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Directed by Lynn Shores
Walter Daniels (asst.)
Written by Winifred Day
Helen Gregg
Based onStolen Love
by Hazel Livingston
Produced byFBO
Starring Marceline Day
Rex Lease
Cinematography Ted Pahle
Edited by Ann McKnight
Distributed by Film Booking Offices of America
Release date
  • December 2, 1928 (1928-12-02)
Running time
7 reels
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Stolen Love is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Lynn Shores and starring Marceline Day and Rex Lease. [1] [2] The plot was adapted from a serial story by Hazel Livingston published in Hearst Corporation newspapers. [3]

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Cast

Critical reception

A review in Harrison's Reports summarized the film as "Only fair . . . an old story, told in a conventional way". [3] It complimented Day's "very good performance" and described Lease as "likeable as the hero", but it described Moore's acting as "in colorless manner". [3]

Preservation

With no prints of Stolen Love located in any film archives, [4] it is a lost film.

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References

  1. "Home". Aficatalog.afi.com. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
  2. Progressive Silent Film List: Stolen Love, Silentera.com
  3. 1 2 3 "'Stolen Love' -- Marceline Day and Owen Moore". Harrison's Reports. January 12, 1929. p. 7. Retrieved May 22, 2022.
  4. "Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Stolen Love". Memory.loc.gov. April 30, 1928. Retrieved April 30, 2023.