''The Woman of Bronze'' is a 1923 American silent

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directed by

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and distributed through

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. It is based on a 1920 Broadway play by Henry Kistemaeckers (adapted by

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) which starred

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, John Halliday, and Mary Fowler. The film version is considered to be lost.

Plot

Vivian (Clara Kimball Young), a long-suffering wife, endures her artist husband’s infidelity with Sylvia (Kathryn McGuire), his young model. Leonard (Lloyd Whitlock) redeems himself when he recognizes the spiritual character of his wife. Vidor considered the film “out of my line.”

Cast

* Clara Kimball Young as Vivian Hunt * John Bowers as Paddy Miles * Kathryn McGuire as Sylvia Morton * Edwin Stevens as Reggie Morton * Lloyd Whitlock as Leonard Hunt *

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as Papa Bonelli

Production

During the filming of A Woman of Bronze Vidor was invited to join

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, with whom he would make two pictures: '' Three Wise Fools'' (1923) and '' Wild Oranges'' (1924).

Reception

“A heavy emotional drama” as reported by

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, 14 April 1923) Durgnat and Simmon 1988 p. 340

Footnotes

References

* Durgnat, Raymond and Simmon, Scott. 1988. ''King Vidor, American.'' University of California Press, Berkeley.

External links

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at silenthollywood.com

at silentfilmstillarchive.com

at stanford.edu

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