''The Silent Partner'' is a 1923 American
silent drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
produced by
Famous Players-Lasky
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company formed on June 28, 1916, from the merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company—originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Plays—and t ...
and released through
Paramount Pictures
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. It was based on a series of articles from the ''
Saturday Evening Post
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'' by Maximilian Foster and directed by
Charles Maigne
Charles Maigne (November 11, 1879 – November 28, 1929) was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era. He wrote for 32 films between 1916 and 1928. He also directed 18 films between 1918 and 1923. He was born in Rich ...
.
Leatrice Joy
Leatrice Joy (born Leatrice Johanna Zeidler; November 7, 1893 – May 13, 1985) was an American actress most prolific during the silent film era.
Early life
Joy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to dentist Edward Joseph Zeidler, who was o ...
and
Owen Moore
Owen Moore (12 December 1886 – 9 June 1939) was an Irish-born American actor, appearing in more than 279 movies spanning from 1908 to 1937.
Early life and career
Moore was born in Fordstown Crossroads, County Meath, Ireland. Along with his p ...
star in the feature. The film is a remake of the
1917 film of the same name.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,
[ ] Lisa Coburn is a young wife who has seen the folly of living on all that her husband earns when he is on Wall Street. She determines, unknown to her husband George, to prepare against any coming disaster. The husband's employee is infatuated with the young wife and plans to ruin the husband and obtain her. His plans succeed, but he fails to win the wife. Instead, she goes to the husband, who has left her in anger and haste, and wins him back by convincing him of the truth of her story.
Cast
Preservation
With no prints of ''The Silent Partner'' located in any film archives, it is a
lost film
A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress.
Conditions
During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o ...
.
The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''The Silent Partner''
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References
External links
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at silentfilmstillarchive.com
1923 films
1923 drama films
Silent American drama films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Famous Players-Lasky films
Films based on short fiction
Films directed by Charles Maigne
Remakes of American films
Paramount Pictures films
Lost American films
1923 lost films
Lost drama films
1920s American films
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