Pordenone - Filmfestival 1991

Reihe: Retrospektive

Old Wives for New

Directed by:   Cecil B. DeMille, USA - 1918
Production: Famous Players-Lasky Corporation - Distribution: Artcraft Pictures Corporation - Producer: Cecil B. DeMille - Jesse L. Lasky - Director: Cecil B. DeMille - Assistant Director: John Browne - Sam Wood - Scenario: Jeanie Macpherson - Based on : David Graham Philips novel - Director of Photography: Alvin Wyckoff - Composer: Louis F. Gottschalk - Editor: Cecil B. DeMille - Art Director: Wilfred Buckland - Costume Design: Alpharetta Hoffman - Cast: Wanda Hawley Sophy (18 Jahre) - Alice Terry Verkäuferin (AKA Alice Taaffe) - Charles Ogle (/xx/) - Edythe Chapman Mrs. Berkeley (/xx/) - Noah Beery Doctor (/xx/) - Elliott Dexter Charles Murdock - Florence Vidor Juliet Raeburn - Sylvia Ashton Sophy Murdock - Marcia Manon Viola - Theodore Roberts Berkeley - Helen Jerome Eddy Norma Murdock - Mayme Kelso Housekeeper - Lillian Leighton Maid - Tully Marshall Simcox - Gustav von Seyffertitz Bladen - Edna Mae Cooper Bertha - J. Parks Jones Charley Murdock - Julia Faye Jessie -
Synopsis in German: Noch als ganz junger Mann hat Charles Murdock die schöne Sophy geheiratet, und das glückliche Paar hat zwei Kinder. Aber jetzt, zwanzig Jahre später, ist Sophy dick und träge geworden, während Charles sich immer noch rüstig und unternehmungslustig fühlt. Auf einem Jagdausflug mit seinem Sohn trifft er die junge Juliet Reaburn und verliebt sich in sie, doch als er ihr gesteht, dass er verheiratet ist, meidet sie ihn. Zurück in New York versucht Charles, der unterdessen die Scheidung von Sophy eingereicht hat, Juliet bei einer Party mit seinem Partner Berkeley zu vergessen. Nach dem Abend wird Berkeley von der eifersüchtig gewordenen Geliebten Jessie tödlich verwundet, noch gelingt es Berkeley, Murdock zu rufen und ihn zu bitten, den Skandal zu vertuschen. Doch auch Sophy, der Murdocks Sekretär Avancen macht, hat von dem Verhältnis des Ehemanns erfahren, und klagt nun selbst auf Scheidung: Charles Murdock schifft sich mit Viola, einem früheren Model Juliets nach Europa ein, um die Presse von Juliet abzulenken. In Venedig, wohin auch Juliet gereist ist, klärt sich schliesslich das Missverständnis: Charles liebt Juliet, der Sekretär hat sich Sophy (und eine fette Mitgift) geangelt: Old Wives for New...
Reviews in German: «David Graham Phillips's "Old Wives for New" furnished Cecil B. DeMille material for the photoplay at the Rivoli this week, and, apparently, Mr. De Mille made the most of his material. As a work of careful and realistic staging, "Old Wives for New" is an accomplishment, and many will enjoy it because of this, but the question is, was the material worth all of the effort put upon it by director and actors? The story is about a man who had preserved his youth and taste for refinement while his wife had permitted herself to become a frowzy old frump whom even the best of husbands could not love and admire. The husband meets a charming young woman and wants to separate from his wife by amicable divorce so that he can marry the other woman. But the wife maintains her rights and the other woman insists on a divorce, so the problem cannot be solved nicely and develops all sorts of complications and difficulties before the man is finally free to marry the woman of his second choice. There is undoubtedly material for a real study of life in "Old Wives for New," but, because of Mr. Phillips or Jeanie Macpherson, who wrote the scenario, the picture play as presented is not much more than a rather highly colored melodrama.» (New York Times, 20. Mai 1918)
Remarks and general Information: Alice Terry in einer frühen Rolle als Verkäuferin im Modesalon

The Whispering Chorus

Directed by:   Cecil B. DeMille, USA - 1918
Production: Famous Players-Lasky Corporation - Distribution: Paramount Pictures, Inc. (as Artcraft Pictures Corporation) - Producer: Cecil B. DeMille - Director: Cecil B. DeMille - Scenario: Jeanie Macpherson - Director of Photography: Alvin Wyckoff - Composer: Rodney Sauer Neuedition 1997 - Editor: Cecil B. DeMille - Art Director: William Buckland - Cast: Julia Faye Girl in Shanghai Dive (/xx/) - Raymond Hatton John Tremble - Charles F. Eyton Best Man at the Wedding (/xx/) - Kathlyn Williams Jane Tremble - Edythe Chapman John Tremble's mother - Charles Ogle Judge (/xx/) - Jack Mulhall Priest (/xx/) - Elliott Dexter George Coggeswell - Edna Mae Cooper Good Face - Walter Lynch Evil Face - Gustav von Seyffertitz Mocking Face - James Neill Channing - William H. Brown Stauberry - Tully Marshall F.P. Clumley - John Burton Charles Barden - Guy Oliver Chief McFarland - Noah Beery sr. Longshoreman -

Pordenone Filmfestival 1991 Program

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