''The Green Temptation'' is a
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1922 American silent melodrama film directed by
William Desmond Taylor
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and starring
Betty Compson
Betty Compson (born Eleanor Luicime Compson; March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer who got her start during Hollywood's silent era. She is best known for her performances in ''The Docks of New York'' and ...
.
The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''The Green Temptation''
/ref> It was written by Julia Crawford Ivers
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Biography
Born in Boonville, Missouri, in 1869, her family arrived a year later in Los Angeles. Her father was a dentist. Her mother died in 1876, whe ...
and Monte Katterjohn based upon the short story "The Noose" by Constance Lindsay Skinner.
Plot
Betty plays a girl who is involved in the Paris criminal underworld. During World War I
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she becomes a wartime Red Cross
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nurse and after the war leaves for America for a new start in life. There she meets an old wartime colleague (Kosloff), a criminal who is conniving to steal a valuable jewel called 'The Green Temptation'. Kosloff wants Betty to help him steal the jewel and when she balks he threatens to reveal her sordid past to her new American friends. Scotland Yard
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detective (Mahlon Hamilton), probably hired to protect the jewel, is sweet on Betty and kills Kosloff when he tries to steal the jewel.
The film has a similarity to von Stroheim's ''Foolish Wives
''Foolish Wives'' is a 1922 American erotic silent drama film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures under their Super-Jewel banner and written and directed by Erich von Stroheim. The drama features von Stroheim, Rudolph Christians, ...
'' released that same year.
Cast
*Betty Compson
Betty Compson (born Eleanor Luicime Compson; March 19, 1897 – April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer who got her start during Hollywood's silent era. She is best known for her performances in ''The Docks of New York'' and ...
as Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
*Mahlon Hamilton
Mahlon Preston Hamilton, Jr. (June 15, 1880 – June 20, 1960), was an American stage and screen actor. He was the son of a bartender born in Baltimore, Maryland, the eldest of four children, with the rest of the siblings being girls. Census ...
as John Allenby
*Theodore Kosloff
Theodore Kosloff (born Fyodor Mikhailovich Kozlov, russian: Фёдор Михайлович Козлов; January 22, 1882 – November 22, 1956) was a Russian-born ballet dancer, choreographer, and film and stage actor. He was occasionally c ...
as Gaspard
*Neely Edwards
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Biography
Edwards appeared in 174 films between 1915 and 1959. The first was as an unbilled player in a Haro ...
as Pitou
*Edmund Burns
Edmund Burns (September 27, 1892 – April 2, 1980 ) was an American actor. He was best known for his films of the silent 1920s, particularly ''The Princess from Hoboken'' (1927), '' Made for Love'' (1926), and ''After the Fog'' (1929), althoug ...
as Hugh Duyker (credited as Edward Burns)
*Lenore Lynard as Duchesse de Chazarin
*Mary Thurman
Mary Thurman (née Christiansen; April 27, 1895 – December 22, 1925) was an American actress of the silent film era.
Early life
Mary Christiansen was born in Richfield, Utah on April 27, 1895, one of seven children raised in the Church of ...
as Dolly Dunton
*William von Hardenburg as Monsieur Jounet
*Betty Brice
Rosetta Dewart Brice (August 4, 1888 – February 15, 1935), known professionally as Betty Brice, was an American actress in many silent films.
Early life
Rosetta Dewart Brice was born in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Edward Lincoln ...
as Mrs. Weedon Duyker
*Arthur Hull as Mr. Weedon Duyker
Production
''The Green Temptation'' was released posthumously following the unsolved murder of its director William Desmond Taylor on February 1, 1922.
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