''Passion's Playground'' is a 1920 American silent drama film produced by and starring
Katherine MacDonald.
Rudolph Valentino
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor based in the United States who starred ...
has a featured part in the film billed as Rudolph Valentine. The film is based on the novel ''The Guests of Hercules'' by
Charles Norris Williamson and
Alice Muriel Williamson. This film is presumed
lost.
Plot
As described in a
film magazine,
Mary Grant (MacDonald), an orphan, leaves an Italian convent and goes to Monte Carlo where, with beginner's luck, she breaks the bank. When her unsophisticated ways lead men to make unseemly advances, she is protected by Prince Angelo Della Robbia (Valentino), whom she later promises to marry. His brother's wife comes to visit her and she learns that she is Marie Grant (Craig), a former student of the same convent who several years earlier had eloped with a man who then deserted her. When a former sweetheart of her husband accuses her of the deed, she places the blame on Mary. Mary goes to a chateau in the mountains. When her life is threatened by crooks, the Prince, after learning the truth of the matter, comes to her rescue, and a happy ending follows.
Cast
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Katherine MacDonald as Mary Grant
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Norman Kerry as Prince Vanno Della Robbia
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Nell Craig as Marie Grant
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Edwin Stevens as Lord Dauntry
*Virginia Ainsworth as Lady Dauntry
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Rudolph Valentino
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor based in the United States who starred ...
as Prince Angelo Della Robbia (credited as Rudolph Valentine)
*Alice Wilson as Dodo Wardrop
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Howard Gaye
Howard Gaye (23 May 1878 – 26 December 1955) was a British actor who worked mainly in the United States.
He acted in 27 silent films, including D. W. Griffith's epics '' The Birth of a Nation'' (1915) as Robert E. Lee and '' Intolerance'' (191 ...
as James Hanaford
*Fanny Ferrari as Idina Bland
*Sylvia Jocelyn as Molly Maxwell
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Walt Whitman as Cure of Roquebrune
See also
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List of lost films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films.
Reas ...
References
External links
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''Passion's Playground'' at SilentEra*
1920 films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films based on British novels
Lost American drama films
1920 drama films
Silent American drama films
First National Pictures films
1920s English-language films
Films based on works by Alice Williamson
1920 lost films
English-language drama films
1920s American films
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