''Sandra'' is a

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1924 American silent

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directed by Arthur H. Sawyer and starring

Barbara La Marr Barbara La Marr (born Reatha Dale Watson; July 28, 1896 – January 30, 1926) was an American film actress and screenwriter who appeared in twenty-seven films during her career between 1920 and 1926. La Marr was also noted by the medi ...

and

Bert Lytell Bertram Lytell (February 24, 1885 – September 28, 1954) was an American actor in theater and film during the silent film era and early talkies. He starred in romantic, melodrama, and adventure films. Background Born in New York City, Lyt ...

. Based on the novel by Pearl Doles Bell, it was produced by Arthur H. Sawyer and Bernard Lubin's Associated Pictures for distribution by

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Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine, Sandra Waring (La Marr) is a woman with two personalities. Her easy-going complacent husband David (Lytell) cannot understand her, for at times she is an affectionate home-loving wife and at other times she is exotic with a craving for adventure and romance. When David faces ruin because of the collapse of a building he has designed, Sandra saves him by making a bargain with Stephen Winslow (Gordon), a connoisseur of women and at the same time finds the opportunity to follow her exotic side. She does not remain long with Winslow but visits Europe. Although she tastes romance and adventure and is acclaimed for her beauty and cleverness she is never satisfied. An affair with a Frenchman brings disillusionment when she discovered he is a crooked gambler and uses her for bait. Finally, she believes she has found happiness and true love with a bank president until he is arrested for embezzlement and it is revealed that he also has a wife. Returning home completely disillusioned, she believes that David has found happiness with Mait Stanley (Hyams), one of her best friends, and decides to take her own life after confessing her failures to David. She leaves and wanders into a church that her husband built where David’s friend Rev. William J. Hapgood (Austin) is minister. David, after he has searched in vain for his wife and come to his friend, the minister, for consolation, finally finds her at the church and takes her in his arms.

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of ''Sandra'' located in any film archives, it is a

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. A trailer exists in the

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collection.Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', p. 158, c.1978 by the American Film Institute

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