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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1260

Beauty's Worth

1922112 minUnited States

Synopsis

Prudence, a young Quaker raised by strict aunts, becomes an object of amusement at a fashionable seaside resort. An artist recognizes qualities that the other guests overlook and gives her a central part in his elaborate charades. Her success changes both their judgment of her and her choice of husband.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 112:14
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Robert G. Vignola · Public domain

Cast

Marion Davies

Forrest Stanley

DirectorsRobert G. Vignola

Behind the scenes

The pageant scenes give Marion Davies an opportunity to revisit a dancing-doll routine from her stage career. Joseph Urban designed the spectacle, while location filming used Point Lobos on the Monterey Peninsula.

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Marion Davies — Screenland · Public domain
Forrest Stanley — Unknown author · Public domain

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