''Passion's Playground'' is a 1920 American silent drama film produced by and starring
Katherine MacDonald
Katherine Agnew MacDonald (December 14, 1891 – June 4, 1956) was an American stage and film actress, film producer, and model. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was the older sister of actresses Miriam MacDonald and Mary MacLaren.
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Rudolph Valentino
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor who starred in several well-known sile ...
has a featured part in the film billed as Rudolph Valentine. The film is based on the novel ''The Guests of Hercules'' by
Charles Norris Williamson and
Alice Muriel Williamson. This film is presumed
lost.
Plot
As described in a
film magazine
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Mary Grant (MacDonald), an orphan, leaves an Italian convent and goes to Monte Carlo where, with beginner's luck, she breaks the bank. When her unsophisticated ways lead men to make unseemly advances, she is protected by Prince Angelo Della Robbia (Valentino), whom she later promises to marry. His brother's wife comes to visit her and she learns that she is Marie Grant (Craig), a former student of the same convent who several years earlier had eloped with a man who then deserted her. When a former sweetheart of her husband accuses her of the deed, she places the blame on Mary. Mary goes to a chateau in the mountains. When her life is threatened by crooks, the Prince, after learning the truth of the matter, comes to her rescue, and a happy ending follows.
Cast
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Katherine MacDonald
Katherine Agnew MacDonald (December 14, 1891 – June 4, 1956) was an American stage and film actress, film producer, and model. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was the older sister of actresses Miriam MacDonald and Mary MacLaren.
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as Mary Grant
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Norman Kerry as Prince Vanno Della Robbia
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Nell Craig as Marie Grant
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Edwin Stevens as Lord Dauntry
*Virginia Ainsworth as Lady Dauntry
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Rudolph Valentino
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor who starred in several well-known sile ...
as Prince Angelo Della Robbia (credited as Rudolph Valentine)
*Alice Wilson as Dodo Wardrop
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Howard Gaye as James Hanaford
*Fanny Ferrari as Idina Bland
*Sylvia Jocelyn as Molly Maxwell
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Walt Whitman
Walter Whitman Jr. (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature. Whitman incor ...
as Cure of Roquebrune
See also
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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.
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References
External links
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''Passion's Playground'' at SilentEra
1920 films
1920 drama films
1920 lost films
1920s American films
1920s English-language films
American black-and-white films
American silent feature films
English-language drama films
Films based on British novels
Films based on works by Alice Williamson
First National Pictures films
Lost American drama films
Lost silent American films
Silent American drama films
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