Clothes Make the Woman | |
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Directed by | Tom Terriss |
Written by | Tom Terriss (scenario) Leslie Mason (titles) |
Produced by | John M. Stahl |
Starring | Eve Southern Walter Pidgeon |
Cinematography | Chester A. Lyons |
Edited by | Desmond O'Brien |
Distributed by | Tiffany-Stahl Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Clothes Make the Woman is a surviving 1928 American silent historical romantic drama film directed by Tom Terriss, and starring Eve Southern and Walter Pidgeon.[1] The film is loosely based on the story of Anna Anderson, a Polish woman who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the daughter of the last czar of Russia Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra.[2] Anastasia was killed along with her parents and siblings by communist Bolshevik revolutionaries on July 17, 1918.[3]
Plot
Anastasia is a young Russian princess who is saved from execution by Victor Trent, a Russian revolutionary. Victor risks his life to help Anastasia flee and the two part ways. Victor later makes his way to Hollywood unaware that Anastasia is also living in the city and attempting to become an actress. By this time, Victor is a popular film actor and producer. Victor sees Anastasia in a crowd of extras and recognizes her as the princess he had previously saved. He promptly casts her in a film about her life and casts himself as her leading man. During a scene reenacting the execution of her family, Victor accidentally shoots Anastasia but she soon recovers, and Anastasia and Victor are married.[1]
Cast
- Eve Southern as Princess Anastasia
- Walter Pidgeon as Victor Trent
- Charles Byer as The Director
- George E. Stone as Assistant Director
- Adolph Milar as Bolshevik Leader
Preservation status
See also
References
- 1 2 American Film Institute (1997). Kenneth White Munden (ed.). American Film Institute Catalog, Feature Films 1921–1930. University of California Press. p. 133. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
- ↑ Welch, Frances (2007). A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-393-06577-0.
- ↑ "Is the Princess Alive?". Life. Time Inc. February 14, 1955. pp. 31–32. ISSN 0024-3019.
- ↑ Clothes Make the Woman at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files:lost Tiffany films of - 1928
- ↑ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Clothes Make the Woman
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