''When Love Grows Cold'' is a 1926 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 ...
directed by
Harry O. Hoyt, and starring
Clive Brook
Clifford Hardman "Clive" Brook (1 June 1887 – 17 November 1974) was an English film actor.
After making his first screen appearance in 1920, Brook emerged as a leading British actor in the early 1920s. After moving to the United States ...
and
Natacha Rambova
Natacha Rambova (born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy; January 19, 1897 – June 5, 1966) was an American film costume designer, set designer, and occasional actress who was active in Hollywood in the 1920s. In her later life, she abandoned design ...
in her only screen starring performance. Rambova was chiefly famous for being the wife of
Rudolph Valentino. The film was originally titled ''Do Clothes Make the Woman?'' But in view of Valentino's recent divorce from Rambova, the distributor took the opportunity to bill her as 'Mrs Valentino' and changed the title to ''When Love Grows Cold''. She was mortally offended and never worked in film again.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review, Margaret Benson gives up her stage career to marry Jerry Benson, a dreamer who fails to put over his plans when he gets his chance before a mammoth oil company board. The wife, however, goes before the board and gets the plans approved. Wealth comes to the family and Jerry becomes a company official. Gloria Trevor becomes a tool of William Graves, president of the firm, in a plot to break up the Benson home. Graves covets Margaret. He ruins Jerry in the stock market. In the end the plot fails and Margaret and Jerry are reunited.
Cast
Preservation
With no prints of ''When Love Grows Cold'' located in any film archives, it is a
lost film
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. Only bit fragments and a trailer survive from this film.
Progressive Silent Film List: ''When Love Grows Cold''
at silentera.com
References
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1926 films
American silent feature films
Films directed by Harry O. Hoyt
Lost American films
Films based on short fiction
1926 drama films
Silent American drama films
American black-and-white films
Film Booking Offices of America films
1926 lost films
Lost drama films
1920s American films
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