''Three Week-Ends'' is a 1928 American

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film directed by Clarence G. Badger and starring Clara Bow and Neil Hamilton. It is believed lost. "Three Week-Ends" is the title given in the

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, with alternate titles being "Three Week Ends" and "3 Weekends".The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''Eve's Secret''

Retrieved November 18, 2022.

Plot

Gladys O'brien, a chorus girl, see James Gordon driving an expensive custom-built automobile and assumes that he is a millionaire playboy, so she sets her sights on him. In reality, James is only an badly-paid insurance salesman who was driving his boss's car to do an errand. James is trying to sell an insurance policy to Turner, a real Broadway playboy. Meanwhile, Gladys has caught Turner's eye, and he invites her to a weekend party at his country house. Gladys accepts, hoping that she can persuade him to sign the insurance policy. When Gladys disrobes to take a swim, Turner hides her clothing and starts to make a move on her, but James turns up uninvited and punches Turner in the nose. Gladys and James return to the city, and James confesses that he is not a rich man, but instead very poor. His situation worsens when he is fired for having punched Turner. Gladys uses her womanly charms to get James re-hired, and coerces Turner into signing the insurance policy. When James sees Turner and Gladys together, he suspects they are having a fling, but his suspicions are soon dispelled and the happy couple make wedding plans.

Cast

* Clara Bow as Gladys O'Brien * Neil Hamilton as James Gordon *

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as Turner * Lucille Powers as Miss Witherspoon * Julia Swayne Gordon as Mrs. Witherspoon * Jack Raymond as Turners Secretary * Edythe Chapman as Ma O'Brien *

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as Pa O'Brien * William Holden as Carter

Production

''Three Week-Ends'' was the third Elinor Glyn script which starred Clara Bow, after 1927's '' It'' – which earned Bow her sobriquet, "The It Girl" – and ''

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'' (1928). Glyn was a British novelist who specialized in romantic fiction, who moved to Hollywood to work in films as a writer, producer and director, based on the response to ''It''. English actor William Austin was originally set to co-star in the film but did not remain with the project. Principal photography during the week of September 22, 1928 at Paramount Famous Lasky's studio on Marathon Street in Hollywood. Although '' Variety'' reported that four sound sequences were shot, featuring dances by choreographers Fanchon & Marco, who also designed the sets for those scenes, the fim was released as a silent, with no sound sequences. Shooting wrapped some time in October 1928.

Release

Before the film's general release on December 8, 1928, with a premiere in New York City, it was screened for President Herbert Hoover in November on board the U.S.S. ''Maryland''.

Preservation status

''Three Week-Ends'' is considered a lost film, with only fragments surviving in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. It was added to the list of Lost U. S. Silent Feature Films maintained by the

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(NFPB) in October 2019.

References

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* * {{Clarence G. Badger American silent feature films American black-and-white films Lost American films 1928 comedy-drama films Films with screenplays by Herman J. Mankiewicz Films directed by Clarence G. Badger Lost comedy-drama films 1928 lost films 1920s English-language films 1920s American films Silent American comedy-drama films