Ladies Must Live (1921 film)

Ladies Must Live
Still with Betty Compson (Screenland, January 1922)
Directed byGeorge Loane Tucker
Written byGeorge Loane Tucker (adaptation)
Based onLadies Must Live
by Alice Duer Miller
StarringBetty Compson
Mahlon Hamilton
Leatrice Joy
John Gilbert
CinematographyErnest Palmer
Phil Rosen
Production
company
Famous Players–Lasky / Mayflower Pictures
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • October 30, 1921 (1921-10-30) (United States)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Ladies Must Live is a 1921 American silent societal drama film directed by George Loane Tucker and released by Paramount Pictures. It was the last directorial effort of George Loane Tucker and was released four months after his death. Betty Compson stars along with Leatrice Joy, John Gilbert and Mahlon Hamilton.[1] It was one of the few instances where future husband and wife Joy and Gilbert appeared in the same film.

1922 advertisement[2]

Plot

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of Ladies Must Live located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.[3][4][5] The Library of Congress Catalog of Holdings lists only the 1940 Warner Brothers film of the same title.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ Golden, Eve (2013). John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars. University Press of Kentucky. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-813-14162-6.
  2. ^ "Daily Illini" (webpage). Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections. January 18, 1922. p. 7. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Ladies Must Live
  4. ^ Presumed Lost at silentera.com
  5. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Ladies Must Live at silentera.com
  6. ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p.99 c.1978 The American Film Institute
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