''The Seventh Day'' is a 1922 American
silent drama film
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directed by
Henry King and starring
Richard Barthelmess
Richard Semler Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era. He starred opposite Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith's '' Broken Blossoms'' (1919) and ''Way Down East'' (1920) and ...
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Louise Huff
Louise Huff (November 14, 1895 – August 22, 1973) was an American actress of the silent film era.
Biography
Huff was a descendant of former President of the United States, President James Knox Polk. She began her acting career at the age ...
,
Frank Losee
Frank Losee (June 12, 1856 – November 14, 1937) was an American stage and screen actor. A veteran of the Broadway stage he began in silent films in 1915. Often he played the father of Mary Pickford, Pauline Frederick and Marguerite Clark.
Car ...
and
Anne Cornwall
Anne Cornwall (January 17, 1897 – March 2, 1980) was an American actress best known for her roles in ''College'' (1927) and ''The Roughneck'' (1924).
Biography
Born in Brooklyn in 1897, Cornwall performed for forty years in many silent film ...
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[Kennedy p. 301] A group of
high society
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New Yorker
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* ''The New ...
s on a yachting vacation put into a small
New England
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fishing village for repairs. While there they strike up relationships with locals that threaten the harmony of their party.
Location shooting
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took place at
New Harbor in
Maine
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Plot
As described in a
film magazine
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John Alden Jr. (Barthelmess) returns to the small fishing village where he had grownup with his two old uncles, a spinster aunt, and his sister Betty (Cornwall). The old men tell him that they are going "into dry dock" and that he is to take command of the fishing boat the next time it leaves. That same day a yacht with a gay party of irresponsible young people aboard limps into the village harbor with bad pumps. John is at once attracted by the pretty Patricia Vane (Huff) while his sister is not averse to the admiration of Reggie Van Zandt (Stewart). Patricia wickedly entices the young rustic, but finds that she is playing with fire as her heart goes out to John while she is engaged to Reggie. Sunday, the seventh day, finds the merry crowd aboard the yacht playing "
put and take" while John, Betty, their elderly relatives, and the "hired girl" are getting ready for church. Patricia and one of the crowd from the yacht go ashore to get some supplies and she is enticed to go to church, which is a novel experience for her. John takes her back in a row boat. Later, he calls on her in a motorboat and tells her that he loves her. It is then that he learns that she is engaged to Reggie. Disillusioned and hurt, he is told by Donald Peabody (Young) that Reggie has taken Betty aboard the yacht. John goes for his sister, knocking down Reggie when he objects. Reggie and Patricia decide to end their engagement, and Reggie manfully telling Betty of his love for her. At the end of the film Patricia is going to John.
Cast
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Richard Barthelmess
Richard Semler Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era. He starred opposite Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith's '' Broken Blossoms'' (1919) and ''Way Down East'' (1920) and ...
as John Alden Jr
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Louise Huff
Louise Huff (November 14, 1895 – August 22, 1973) was an American actress of the silent film era.
Biography
Huff was a descendant of former President of the United States, President James Knox Polk. She began her acting career at the age ...
as Patricia Vane
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Frank Losee
Frank Losee (June 12, 1856 – November 14, 1937) was an American stage and screen actor. A veteran of the Broadway stage he began in silent films in 1915. Often he played the father of Mary Pickford, Pauline Frederick and Marguerite Clark.
Car ...
as Uncle Jim Alden
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Leslie Stowe
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Stowe was bo ...
as Uncle Ned
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Tammany Young
Tammany Young (September 9, 1886 – April 26, 1936) was an American stage and film actor.
Early life
Born in New York City, Young appeared on Broadway in ''The Front Page'' (1928) by Ben Hecht and ''The New Yorkers'' (1930) by Herbert Fields ...
as Donald Peabody
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George Stewart as Reggie Van Zandt
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Alfred Schmid
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as Monty Pell
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Grace Barton
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as Aunt Abigail
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Anne Cornwall
Anne Cornwall (January 17, 1897 – March 2, 1980) was an American actress best known for her roles in ''College'' (1927) and ''The Roughneck'' (1924).
Biography
Born in Brooklyn in 1897, Cornwall performed for forty years in many silent film ...
as Betty Alden
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Patterson Dial
Elizabeth Patterson Dial (May 19, 1902 – March 23, 1945) was a writer and silent film actress of the 1920s. Later she married novelist Rupert Hughes. She was born Elizabeth Patterson Dial in Madison, Florida.
Screen actress
Dial appeared in ...
as Katinka
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Teddie Gerard
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as 'Billie' Blair
References
Bibliography
* Matthew Kennedy. ''Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory: Hollywood's Genius Bad Boy''. Terrace Books, 2004.
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1922 films
1922 drama films
Silent American drama films
Films directed by Henry King
American silent feature films
1920s English-language films
First National Pictures films
American black-and-white films
1920s American films
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