''The Blonde Saint'' is a 1926 American
silent romantic adventure film directed by
Svend Gade
Svend Lauritz Gade (9 February 1877 – 25 June 1952) was a Danish theatre director, set designer, screenwriter and film director. He worked in America and Germany as well as his native country.Langman p.263
Selected filmography
* ''The Maharaja's ...
. It was produced by
Sam E. Rork and released through
First National Pictures
First National Pictures was an American motion picture production and distribution company. It was founded in 1917 as First National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc., an association of independent theatre owners in the United States, and became the count ...
.
Lewis Stone
Lewis Shepard Stone (November 15, 1879 – September 12, 1953) was an American film actor. He spent 29 years as a contract player at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was best known for his portrayal of Judge James Hardy in the studio's popular '' Andy ...
and
Doris Kenyon
Doris Margaret Kenyon (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1979) was an American actress of motion pictures and television.
Early life
She grew up in Syracuse, New York, where her family had a home at 1805 Harrison Street. Her father, Dr. Ja ...
star and young newcomer
Gilbert Roland
Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso (December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994), known professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until the 1980s. He was twice no ...
is featured.
Plot
The plot of the film bears a striking resemblance to the plot of the Warner Brothers talkie, ''
One Way Passage
''One Way Passage'' is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic film starring William Powell and Kay Francis as star-crossed lovers, directed by Tay Garnett and released by Warner Bros. The screenplay by Robert Lord won the Academy Award for Best St ...
'' (1932). This silent appears to have been more exotic.
Cast
Production
Producer Rork's 19-year-old daughter, Ann Rork, has a major role in the film as she has in her father's later produced ''
The Notorious Lady'' (1927). Lewis Stone also returned in ''The Notorious Lady''.
This was the final film of screenwriter
Marion Fairfax
Marion Fairfax (born Marion Neiswanger; October 24, 1875 – October 2, 1970) was an American screenwriter, playwright, actress, and producer.
Early career
Fairfax first started her career as a stage actress, just like many other women did in ...
. She and producer Rork had formed a partnership to make films in 1925, but, following the completion ''The Blonde Saint'' and a severe illness, she left film making and then wrote only for periodicals.
Preservation
An abridged and or incomplete version of survives in the
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, ...
National Film and Television Archive
The BFI National Archive is a department of the British Film Institute, and one of the largest film archives in the world. It was founded as the National Film Library in 1935; its first curator was Ernest Lindgren. In 1955, its name became the N ...
, London.
The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''The Blonde Saint''
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References
External links
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1926 films
American silent feature films
Films based on American novels
First National Pictures films
1926 romantic drama films
American romantic drama films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Svend Gade
1920s American films
Silent romantic drama films
Silent adventure films
Silent American drama films
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