Fashion Row

Last updated

Fashion Row
Fashion Row (1923, advertisement 1).jpg
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Written by
Produced byRobert Z. Leonard
Starring
Cinematography Oliver T. Marsh
Production
company
Distributed by Metro Pictures
Release date
  • December 3, 1923 (1923-12-03)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Fashion Row is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Mae Murray in a dual role, Earle Foxe, and Freeman Wood. [1] The film involves two Russian sisters emigrate to America. One tries to hide her peasant origins and rises in high society, while the other remains closer to her roots.

Contents

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, [2] Russian Olga Farinova becomes a famous actress in New York City. Under the pretense of being of noble birth, she weds a young millionaire. When her sister Zita arrives, she is at first disowned by Olga. A message declaring that Zita is ill lures Olga to the East Side. Olga is trapped there by an old suitor seeking revenge, shot, and dies in her husband's embrace. Zita is then adopted by the millionaire's family.

Cast

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mae Murray</span> Actress, dancer, film producer, screenwriter (1885–1965)

Mae Murray was an American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter. Murray rose to fame during the silent film era and was known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" and "The Gardenia of the Screen".

<i>Enemies of Women</i> 1923 film by Alan Crosland

Enemies of Women is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Lionel Barrymore, Alma Rubens, Gladys Hulette, Pedro de Cordoba, and Paul Panzer. The film was produced by William Randolph Hearst through his Cosmopolitan Productions. Pre-fame actresses Clara Bow and Margaret Dumont have uncredited bit roles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Earle Foxe</span> American actor

Earle Foxe was an American actor.

<i>The Merry Widow</i> (1925 film) 1925 film

The Merry Widow is a 1925 American silent romantic drama/black comedy film directed and written by Erich von Stroheim. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film stars Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, and Tully Marshall, with pre-fame uncredited appearances by Joan Crawford and Clark Gable.

<i>Danger, Go Slow</i> 1918 film

Danger, Go Slow is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, and starring Mae Murray, Jack Mulhall and Lon Chaney. Robert Z. Leonard and Mae Murray co-wrote the screenplay together. The film is today considered lost.

<i>Circe, the Enchantress</i> 1924 film by Robert Zigler Leonard

Circe, the Enchantress is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The film starred Leonard's then-wife Mae Murray. This was their last collaboration, and they divorced soon after. Considered to be a lost film for decades, a print of Circe, the Enchantress was found at a foreign archive.

<i>The Masked Bride</i> 1925 film

The Masked Bride is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Mae Murray, Francis X. Bushman, and Basil Rathbone. It is currently a lost film.

<i>Peacock Alley</i> (1922 film) 1922 film

Peacock Alley is a 1922 American silent drama film starring Monte Blue and Mae Murray. The film was directed by Murray's husband at the time, Robert Z. Leonard. An incomplete print survives at the Library of Congress.

<i>Peacock Alley</i> (1930 film) 1930 film

Peacock Alley is a 1930 American pre-Code musical romantic drama film directed by Marcel de Sano, and starring Mae Murray and George Barraud. The film is a remake of the 1922 silent film of the same name in which Murray also stars. Aside from Murray being cast in the lead, the remake was largely different from the 1922 silent film. While Murray's character in the 1922 film was named Cleo, she was renamed Claire Tree in this film. George Barraud replaced Monte Blue as the male lead, who is now named Clayton Stoddard.

<i>A Trip to Chinatown</i> (film) 1926 film by Robert P. Kerr

A Trip to Chinatown is a 1926 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and starring Margaret Livingston and Earle Foxe. The supporting cast includes Anna May Wong and Charles Farrell. The movie was scripted by Beatrice Van from Charles Hale Hoyt's hit 1891 Broadway musical of the same name and directed by Robert P. Kerr.

<i>Fascination</i> (1922 film) 1922 film

Fascination is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring his then wife Mae Murray. The film is based on an original story by Edmund Goulding who was soon to be a prolific film director.

The Bride's Awakening is a 1918 American silent drama film released by Universal Pictures and produced by their Bluebird production unit. Robert Z. Leonard directed the film and his then-wife Mae Murray was the star. A print of the film is housed at the EYE Institute Nederlands.

<i>Pecks Bad Girl</i> 1918 American film

Peck's Bad Girl is a 1918 comedy film directed by Charles Giblyn, written by Tex Charwate, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and starring Mabel Normand and Earle Foxe. The black and white silent film, in the style of the Peck's Bad Boy stories, was released by the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation in 35mm on September 2, 1918. The picture's running time is 50 minutes.

<i>Arms and the Girl</i> 1917 American silent film

Arms and the Girl is a 1917 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Joseph Kaufman and stars Billie Burke. The film is one of the few of director Kaufman's to survive and the earliest known Billie Burke silent to survive.

Face Value is a 1918 American silent drama film starring Mae Murray and directed by Robert Z. Leonard. It was released by Universal Film and produced by their second tier production unit Bluebird.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Freeman Wood</span> American actor

Freeman Wood was an American character actor of the silent and sound film eras.

<i>The Gilded Lily</i> (1921 film) 1921 film by Robert Zigler Leonard

The Gilded Lily is a surviving 1921 American silent drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard and written by Clara Beranger and Tom McNamara. The film stars Mae Murray, Lowell Sherman, Jason Robards, Sr., Charles K. Gerrard, and Leonora von Ottinger. The film was released on March 6, 1921, by Paramount Pictures.

<i>Innocence</i> (1923 film) 1923 film by Edward LeSaint

Innocence is a lost 1923 American silent drama film directed by Edward J. Le Saint and starring Anna Q. Nilsson. The film was released by the CBC Film Sales Corporation, which would later become Columbia Pictures.

<i>A Lady of Quality</i> (1924 film) 1924 film by Hobart Henley

A Lady of Quality is a 1924 American silent historical drama film directed by Hobart Henley and starring Virginia Valli. Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, it was based on the 1896 novel A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Previous adaptations include the film A Lady of Quality (1913).

<i>The Midnight Sun</i> (1926 film) 1926 film by Dimitri Buchowetzki

The Midnight Sun is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki and starring Laura La Plante, Pat O'Malley, and Michael Vavitch. It is based on a novel by the French writer Pierre Benoît. The film is set in pre-Revolutionary Tsarist Russia.

References

  1. Ankerich p. 130
  2. Pardy, George T. (December 22, 1923). "Feature Previews: Fashion Row". Exhibitors Trade Review. New York: Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation. 15 (4): 25. Retrieved May 4, 2022.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

Bibliography