''Fascinating Youth'' is a 1926 American
silent romantic comedy
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film directed by
Sam Wood
Samuel Grosvenor Wood (July 10, 1883 – September 22, 1949) was an American film director and producer who is best known for having directed such Hollywood hits as '' A Night at the Opera'', '' A Day at the Races'', '' Goodbye, Mr. Chips'', '' ...
. It starred
Charles "Buddy" Rogers
Charles Edward "Buddy" Rogers (August 13, 1904 – April 21, 1999) was an American film actor and musician. During the peak of his popularity in the late 1920s and early 1930s he was publicized as "America's Boyfriend".
Life and career
Early ...
(in his feature debut), along with
Thelma Todd
Thelma Alice Todd (July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935) was an American actress and businesswoman who carried the nicknames "The Ice Cream Blonde" and "Hot Toddy". Appearing in about 120 feature films and shorts between 1926 and 1935, sh ...
and
Josephine Dunn
Mary Josephine Dunn (May 1, 1906 – February 3, 1983) was an American stage and film actress of the 1920s and 1930s.
Early years
Dunn was born in New York City and educated at Holy Cross convent school.
Career
At age 14 and a 5'5" tall bl ...
in supporting roles. Many well-known personalities made guest appearances in the film, judging a beauty contest in one scene, and
Clara Bow
Clara Gordon Bow (; July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the ...
makes a cameo appearance in her second film for
Paramount Pictures.
The film is now considered
lost
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History
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, with only the trailer surviving.
''Fascinating Youth'' at Lost Film Files: ''Paramount Pictures - 1926''
Cast
* Charles "Buddy" Rogers
Charles Edward "Buddy" Rogers (August 13, 1904 – April 21, 1999) was an American film actor and musician. During the peak of his popularity in the late 1920s and early 1930s he was publicized as "America's Boyfriend".
Life and career
Early ...
as Teddy Ward
* Ivy Harris as Jeanne King
* Jack Luden
Jacob Benson Luden (February 8, 1902 – February 15, 1951) was an American film actor.
Early life
The son of Jacob and Anna Luden, he grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania. His uncle was confectioner William H. Luden, who developed the menthol coug ...
as Ross Page
* Walter Goss as Randy Furness
* Claude Buchanan as Bobby Stearns
* Mona Palma as Dotty Sinclair
* Thelma Todd
Thelma Alice Todd (July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935) was an American actress and businesswoman who carried the nicknames "The Ice Cream Blonde" and "Hot Toddy". Appearing in about 120 feature films and shorts between 1926 and 1935, sh ...
as Lorraine Lane
* Josephine Dunn
Mary Josephine Dunn (May 1, 1906 – February 3, 1983) was an American stage and film actress of the 1920s and 1930s.
Early years
Dunn was born in New York City and educated at Holy Cross convent school.
Career
At age 14 and a 5'5" tall bl ...
as Loris Lane
* Thelda Kenvin as Betty Kent
* Jeanne Morgan as Mae Oliver
* Dorothy Nourse as Mary Arnold
* Irving Hartley as Johnnie
* Gregory Blackton as Frederick Maine
* Robert Andrews as Duke Slade
* Charles Brokaw as Gregory
* Iris Gray as Sally Lee
* Ralph Lewis as John Ward
* Joseph Burke as Ward's Secretary
* James Bradbury, Sr. as The Professor
* Harry Sweet as The Sheriff
* William Black as Deputy Sheriff
* Richard Dix
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as Himself
* Adolphe Menjou
Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's ''A Woman of Paris'', where he played the lead role; Stanley K ...
as Himself
* Clara Bow
Clara Gordon Bow (; July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the ...
as Herself
* Lois Wilson as Herself
* Percy Marmont
Percy Marmont (25 November 1883 – 3 March 1977) was an English film actor.
Biography
Marmont appeared in more than 80 films between 1916 and 1968. A veteran film actor by 1923, he scored a big hit that year in ''If Winter Comes'', later rem ...
as Himself
* Chester Conklin
Chester Cooper Conklin (January 11, 1886 – October 11, 1971) was an early American film comedian who started at Keystone Studios as one of Mack Sennett’s Keystone Cops, often paired with Mack Swain. He appeared in a series of films with Ma ...
as Himself
* Thomas Meighan
Thomas Meighan (April 9, 1879 – July 8, 1936) was an American actor of silent films and early talkies. He played several leading-man roles opposite popular actresses of the day, including Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. At one point he co ...
as Himself
* Lila Lee
Lila Lee (born Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel; July 25, 1905 – November 13, 1973) was a prominent screen actress, primarily a leading lady, of the silent film and early sound film eras.
Early life
The daughter of Augusta Fredericka Appe ...
as Herself
* Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein (Russian: Лейб Мильштейн); September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Moldovan-American film director. He is known for directing '' Two Arabian Knights'' (1927) and ''All Quiet on the Weste ...
as Himself
* Malcolm St. Clair as Himself
References
External links
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''Fascinating Youth'' at SilentEra
1926 films
1926 romantic comedy films
American romantic comedy films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Famous Players-Lasky films
Films directed by Sam Wood
Lost American films
Paramount Pictures films
Lost romantic comedy films
1926 lost films
1920s American films
Silent romantic comedy films
Silent American comedy films
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