A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Cast: Eleanor Boardman [Elizabeth], Malcolm McGregor [Edward Lutton], Alec Francis (Alec B. Francis) [Lord Clive Cheney], Eugenie Besserer [Lady Catherine], George Fawcett [Portenous], Creighton Hale [Arnold], Otto Hoffman [Dorker], Eulalie Jensen [Mrs. Shenstone], Joan Crawford

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Kenneth B. Clarke, from the play The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons and James Basevi. Costume design by Ethel P. Chaffin. Cinematography by Chester A. Lyons (Chester Lyons). / © 14 September 1925 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation [LP21825]. Premiered [?] October? 1925. General release, 2 December 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Crawford appears in a small role. The play was subsequently filmed as Strictly Unconventional (1930).

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive, 16mm reduction positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Authors: W. Somerset Maugham - Domestics: Chauffeurs - Marriages: Elopements

Listing updated: 2 December 2012.

References: Drew-Speaking p. 275; Eames-MGM p. 24; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 37; Kobal-Fifty p. 29; Shipman-Cinema p. 86 : ClasIm-221 p. 14 : Website-AFI; Website-GEM.

Home video: DVD.