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Lillian Gish and Karl Dane.
Photo: Silent Era low-res collection. |
The Scarlet Letter
(1926) American
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Victor Seastrom (Victor Sjöström) Victor Sjostrom
Cast: Lillian Gish [Hester Prynne], Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall, Karl Dane, Marcelle Corday, William H. Tooker, Fred Herzog, Jules Cowles, Mary Hawes, Joyce Coad, James A. Marcus, Nora Cecil, Dorothy Gray, Margaret Mann, Polly Moran
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. / Scenario by Frances Marion, from the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Set design by Cedric Gibbons and Sidney Ullman. Costume design by Max Rée. Assistant director Harold S. Bucquet. Cinematography by Hendrik Sartov. Intertitles by Frances Marion. Edited by Hugh Wynn. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Gish’s second MGM film.
Drama: Historical.
Survival Status: Prints exist in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists film archive, and in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm preservation positive].
Keywords: Adultery
Listing updated: 17 October 2004.
References: Bardèche-History p. 264; Eames-MGM p. 35; Everson-American pp. 161, 319; Forslund-Sjöström p. 279; Geduld-Birth p. 146; Higashi-Virgins pp. 20-22; Kael-Kiss p. 345; Kerr-Silent p. 315; Kobal-Fifty p. 42; Leish-Cinema pp. 49-50, 51, 57-58; Limbacher-Feature p. 214; McIlroy-Sweden pp. 23, 25, 26, 167; Shipman-Cinema p. 92; Sinyard-Silent pp. 76, 156; Sklar-Movie p. 100; Vermilye-Twenties p. 215; Walker-Garbo pp. 28, 39; Weaver-Twenty p. 146 : ClasIm-301 p. 17.
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