The Gilded Highway

The Gilded Highway
Film poster
Directed by	J. Stuart Blackton
Written by	Marian Constance Blackton (adaptation)
Based on	A Little More by William Babington Maxwell
Starring	Dorothy Devore John Harron Macklyn Arbuckle
Cinematography	Nicholas Musuraca
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	June 19, 1926 (1926-06-19)
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Gilded Highway is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Dorothy Devore, John Harron, and Macklyn Arbuckle. ^{[1] [2]}

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, ^[3] a rich uncle dies and leaves money to the Welby family. The results are disastrous. Young Jack Welby abandons Amabel, the young woman he is engaged to; his sister Primrose quits her fiance Hugo Blythe; and the whole family goes in for high living. In the end when they are broke, they come to their senses, but not before all family members experience considerable grief. A faithful former servant who runs their old home as a boarding house comes to their assistance. The lovers are reunited.

Cast

• Dorothy Devore as Primrose Welby
• John Harron as Jack Welby
• Macklyn Arbuckle as Jonathan Welby
• Myrna Loy as Inez Quartz
• Florence Turner as Mrs. Welby
• Sheldon Lewis as Uncle Nicholas Welby
• Andrée Tourneur as Amabel
• Gardner James as Hugo Blythe
• Mathilde Comont as Sarah
• Thomas R. Mills as Adolphus Faring

Censorship

Before the film could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the shortening of the comedic dance scene, where the girl falls into the man's arms. ^[4]

Preservation

With no prints of The Gilded Highway in any film archives, ^[5] it is a lost film.

References

1. Leider, Emily W. (2011). Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood. University of California Press. p. 315. ISBN   978-0-520-25320-9.
2. Progressive Silent Film List: The Gilded Highway at silentera.com
3. Pardy, George T. (April 17, 1926), "Pre-Release Review of Features: The Gilded Highway", Motion Picture News, 33 (16), New York City, New York: Motion Picture News, Inc.: 1835, retrieved April 20, 2023 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
4. "Kansas Board of Review Movie Index - Kansas Historical Society". www.kansashistory.gov. Retrieved September 21, 2025.
5. "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Gilded Butterfly". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved September 21, 2025.

External links

• The Gilded Highway at IMDb
• The Gilded Highway at the TCM Movie Database