Married Flirts is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Robert Vignola and starring Pauline Frederick, Mae Busch, and Conrad Nagel.[1] The screenplay, written by Julia Ivers, is based on Louis Joseph Vance's 1923 best seller Mrs. Paramor.[2] The drama was considered quite daring at the time as the story centered on husbands being lured away from their wives. One scene has well known Hollywood stars playing themselves at a party.

Married Flirts
Still with Mae Busch
Directed byRobert G. Vignola
Written byJulia Ivers
Based onMrs. Paramor
by Louis Joseph Vance
StarringPauline Frederick
Mae Busch
Conrad Nagel
CinematographyOliver T. Marsh
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • October 27, 1924 (1924-10-27)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Plot

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Nellie Wayne (Pauline Frederick) is a novelist who loses her husband to a vamp, who thereupon rejects him to marry another man, who is seduced by the novelist.

Cast

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Preservation

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With no prints of the film located in any film archives,[3] Married Flirts is classified as a lost film.[4] The last known copy of the film was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire.[5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Married Flirts at silentera.com
  2. ^ White Munden, Kenneth (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930. University of California Press. p. 496. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
  3. ^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Married Flirts
  4. ^ Greta de Groat. "Pauline Frederick: Married Flirts (1924)". stanford.edu. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
  5. ^ ""Married Flirts"".
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