''To Have and to Hold'' is a 1922 American
silent historical
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drama film
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. Based on the 1899
novel of the same name, the film was directed by
George Fitzmaurice
George Fitzmaurice (13 February 1885 – 13 June 1940) was a French-born film director and producer.
Career
Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage. Beginning in 1914, and continuing until his death in 1940, he directed ...
and starred
Bert Lytell
Bertram Lytell (February 24, 1885 – September 28, 1954) was an American actor in theater and film during the silent film era and early talkies. He starred in romantic, melodrama, and adventure films.
Background
Born in New York City, Lyt ...
and
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 ...
.
''To Have and to Hold'' is now considered
lost
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History
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.
The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:''To Have and to Hold''
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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 Lady Jocelyn Leigh
* Bert Lytell
Bertram Lytell (February 24, 1885 – September 28, 1954) was an American actor in theater and film during the silent film era and early talkies. He starred in romantic, melodrama, and adventure films.
Background
Born in New York City, Lyt ...
as Captain Ralph Percy
* 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 cr ...
as Lord Carnal
* William J. Ferguson as Jeremy Sparrow
* Raymond Hatton
Raymond William Hatton (July 7, 1887 – October 21, 1971) was an American film actor who appeared in almost 500 motion pictures.
Biography
Hatton was born in Red Oak, Iowa. His physician father steered him toward a career in medicine. Howev ...
as King James I
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until ...
* Claire Du Brey
Claire Du Brey (born Clara Violet Dubreyvich, August 31, 1892 – August 1, 1993) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 200 films between 1916 and 1959. Her name is sometimes rendered as Claire Du Bray or as Claire Dubrey.
Ear ...
as Patience Worth
* Walter Long as Red Gill
* 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 Lady Jane Carr
* Fred Huntley
Fred Huntley (29 August 1862 in London, England – 1 November 1931 in Hollywood, California) was an English silent film actor and director.
Fred Huntley made his theater debut at London's Covent Garden in 1879. After years as the leading m ...
as Paradise
* Arthur Rankin Arthur Rankin may refer to:
*Arthur Rankin (surveyor) (1816–1893), Canadian surveyor, entrepreneur, and politician
*Arthur Rankin Jr. (1924–2014), American producer, director, and writer
* Arthur E. Rankin (1888–1962), American teacher and po ...
as Lord Cecil
* Lucien Littlefield
Lucien Littlefield (August 16, 1895 – June 4, 1960) was an American actor who achieved a long career from silent films to the television era. He was noted for his versatility, playing a wide range of roles and already portraying old men befor ...
as Duke of Buckingham
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...
Other
The novel was first adapted for the screen in 1916. The 1916 version starred Mae Murray
Mae Murray (born Marie Adrienne Koenig; May 10, 1885 – March 23, 1965) was an American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter. Murray rose to fame during the silent film era and was known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" and "Th ...
and Wallace Reid
William Wallace Halleck Reid (April 15, 1891 – January 18, 1923) was an American actor in silent film, referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover". He also had a brief career as a racing driver.
Early life
Reid was born in St. Louis, M ...
, and is also considered lost.
See also
*List of lost films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films.
Reas ...
References
External links
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''To Have and to Hold''
at Virtual History
lobby poster
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1922 films
1920s historical adventure films
1922 romantic drama films
American historical adventure films
American romantic drama films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Famous Players-Lasky films
Films based on American novels
Films directed by George Fitzmaurice
Lost American films
Paramount Pictures films
Films with screenplays by Ouida Bergère
Remakes of American films
Films set in the 1620s
Films set in the Thirteen Colonies
Cultural depictions of James VI and I
Films set in London
1922 lost films
Lost romantic drama films
1920s American films
Silent romantic drama films
Silent adventure films
Silent American drama films
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